Chromatography, literally " color writing ", was first employed by Russian scientist Mikhail Tsvet in 1900.

Three Russian instruments also appeared, Oubouhof's Croix Sonore ( 1934 ), Ivor Darreg's microtonal ' Electronic Keyboard Oboe ' ( 1937 ) and the ANS synthesizer, constructed by the Russian scientist Evgeny Murzin from 1937 to 1958.

* 1917 – Ilya Prigogine, Russian scientist, Nobel laureate ( d. 2003 )

* 1941 – Alexander V. Zakharov, Russian scientist

Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky ( 19 September 1935 ) was an Imperial Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory.

* 1895 – In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector — a primitive radio receiver.

* 1900 – Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian scientist ( d. 1980 )

After becoming aware of the work of the Swedish Academy and, in particular, papers by N. P. Bochkov and E. I. Chazov, Russian atmospheric scientist Georgy Golitsyn applied his research on dust-storms to the situation following a nuclear catastrophe.

The Russian scientist Karl Ernst Claus discovered the element in 1844 and named it after Ruthenia, the Latin word for Rus ' ( ancient Russia ).

Many of these carefully collected scientific data had been lost during the ill-fated journey of Peter Tessem and Paul Knutsen, two crew members sent on a mission by Amundsen, but they were later retrieved by Russian scientist Nikolay Urvantsev as they lay abandoned on the Kara Sea shores.

A Russian scientist made photographic superimpositions and determined that Marie and Alexei were not accounted for.

The key concept of the space elevator appeared in 1895 when Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was inspired by the Eiffel Tower in Paris to consider a tower that reached all the way into space, built from the ground up to the altitude of geostationary orbit ( 35, 790 kilometers ( 22, 238 mi ) above sea level ).

In 1959 another Russian scientist, Yuri N. Artsutanov, suggested a more feasible proposal.

In 1907 Russian scientist Boris Rosing became the first inventor to use a CRT in the receiver of an experimental television system.

* Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scientist

* June 17 – Andrei Fursenko, Russian politician, scientist and businessman

* July 30 – Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov, Russian poet, scientist and revolutionary ( b. 1854 )

* June 1 – Alexander Zakharov, Soviet and Russian deputy scientist and astronomer, IKI

* January 12 – Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist ( d. 1966 )

** Sergei Korolev, Russian space scientist ( b. 1907 )

* September 5 – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian scientist and inventor ( d. 1935 )

* July 7 – Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov, Russian poet, scientist and revolutionary ( d. 1946 )

* April 15 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian author and scientist ( b. 1711 )

Such cooperative behaviors have sometimes been seen as arguments for left-wing politics such by the Russian zoologist and anarchist Peter Kropotkin in his 1902 book Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution and Peter Singer in his book A Darwinian Left.

* 1669 – Eudoxia Lopukhina, Russian wife of Peter the Great ( d. 1731 )

It was in this reign that an important change in the government of the Danubian Principalities was introduced: previously, the Porte had appointed Hospodars, usually native Moldavian and Wallachian boyars, to administer those provinces ; after the Russian campaign of 1711, during which Peter the Great found an ally in Moldavia Prince Dimitrie Cantemir, the Porte began overtly deputizing Phanariote Greeks in that region, and extended the system to Wallachia after Prince Stefan Cantacuzino established links with Eugene of Savoy.

* Pine Cone ( Fabergé egg ), a jewelled enameled Easter egg made under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1900

* 1842 – Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist ( d. 1921 )

In celebration of his conquests, Peter assumed the title of emperor as well as tsar, and Russian Tsardom officially became the Russian Empire in 1721.

Peter the Great leading the Russian army in the Battle of Poltava

She contributed to the resurgence of the Russian nobility that began after the death of Peter the Great.

Alternative social doctrines were elaborated by such Russian radicals as Alexander Herzen and Peter Kropotkin.

Chernyi advocated a Nietzschean overthrow of the values of bourgeois Russian society, and rejected the voluntary communes of anarcho-communist Peter Kropotkin as a threat to the freedom of the individual.

* 1827 – Peter Semenov of Tian Shan, Russian explorer ( d. 1914 )

* 1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree.

In 1761, during the Seven Years ' War, the town was captured after three subsequent sieges by the Russian commander Peter Rumyantsev.

The Russian nobility then gained power upon the ascension of the twelve-year-old Peter II.

Within the space of these tendencies there has developed a coherent critique of " orthodox Marxism " that includes not only a rejection of the concept of " the transition " but a reconceptualization of the process of transcending capitalism that has remarkable similarities to ( Peter ) Kropotkin's thinking on this subject ... Thus one of the earliest political tendencies within which this approach appeared after the Russian revolution of 1917 was that of " Council Communism " which saw the " workers councils " in Germany ( see Bavarian Soviet Republic ), or the soviets in Russia, as new organizational forms constructed by the people.

* 1846 – Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler ( d. 1920 )

Upon the death of Peter the Great in 1725, Catherine, Peter's wife succeeded to the throne of the Russian Empire as Czarina Catherine I.

Among those influenced were the Russian Alexander Afanasyev, the Norwegians Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, and the Englishman Joseph Jacobs.

The TP53 gene from the mouse was first cloned by Peter Chumakov of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1982, and independently in 1983 by Moshe Oren in collaboration with David Givol ( Weizmann Institute of Science ).

Among those influenced were the Russian Alexander Afanasyev, the Norwegians Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, and the Englishman Joseph Jacobs.

* 1911 – Russian Premier Peter Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.

During the Great Northern War ( 1700 – 21 ), the restoration of Augustus the Strong as King of Poland was prepared in the town by Russian Tsar Peter the Great.