Wednesday 28th of March 1584 (-) — Grand Prince of Moscow and Tsar of Russia Ivan the Terrible dies of a stroke while playing chess with his associate Bogdan Belsky
Monday 30th of May 1672 (+) — Ruler of the Tsardom of Russia Peter the Great is born
Thursday 6th of June 1799 (+) — Romantic poet and writer Alexander Pushkin is born
Friday 9th of December 1842 (+) — Activist, revolutionary, scientist, geographer and philosopher Pyotr Kropotkin is born
Thursday 4th of March 1852 (-) — Writer Nikolai Gogol dies of anaemia due to self-starvation
On the night of 24 February 1852 Gogol burned some of his manuscripts which contained most of the second part of 'Dead Souls'. He explained this as a mistake, a practical joke played on him by the Devil. Soon thereafter he took to bed, refused all food and died in great pain nine days later.
Sunday 16th of December 1866 (+) — Painter and art theorist Wassily Kandinsky is born
Saturday 6th of January 1872 (+) — Pianist and composer Alexander Scriabin is born
Tuesday 5th of March 1878 (+) — Mathematician and esotericist Peter Ouspensky is born
Monday 10th of February 1890 (+) — Writer Boris Pasternak is born
Tuesday 27th of April 1915 (-) — Pianist and composer Alexander Scriabin dies of septicemia, contracted as a result of a shaving cut or a boil on his lip
Scriabin's last words were "This means the end. What a catastrophe!" He claimed that he was God and eventually acknowledged that he was inspired by Satan. Imitating Christ he was an anti-christ filled with Satan, controlled by Satan and ultimately destroyed by Satan.
Thursday 25th of January 1917 (+) — Theoretical chemist Ilya Prigogine is born
Tuesday 3rd of September 1918 (-) — Revolutionary Fanya Kaplan is executed by a shot in the back of the head
Friday 30th of August 1918 (x) — Political theorist and communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin is shot by Fanya Kaplan aka The Woman Who Tried to Kill Lenin
Kaplan approached Lenin at his automobile after a meeting at the Former Michelson Works; he was resting a foot on the running board as he spoke with a woman. Kaplan called to Lenin, and when he turned to face her she shot at him three times. The first bullet struck his arm, the second bullet his jaw and neck, and the third missed him, wounding the woman with whom he was speaking. The wounds felled him and he became unconscious. "My name is Fanya Kaplan. Today I shot at Lenin. I did it on my own. I will not say from whom I obtained my revolver. I will give no details. I had resolved to kill Lenin long ago. I consider him a traitor to the Revolution."
Saturday 21st of May 1921 (+) — Nuclear physicist, Soviet dissident and human rights activist Andrei Sakharov is born
Thursday 15th of March 1923 (x) — Political theorist and communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin is struck by a third stroke
Wednesday 20th of May 1925 (+) — Aircraft designer Alexei Tupolev is born
Wednesday 16th of March 1927 (+) — Test pilot, aerospace engineer and cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov is born
Monday 14th of April 1930 (-) — Futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky commits suicide a shot through the heart
An unfinished poem in Mayakovsky's suicide note read in part: "The love boat has crashed against the daily routine. You and I, we are quits, and there is no point in listing mutual pains, sorrows, and hurts."
Friday 30th of August 1935 (-) — Writer Henri Barbusse dies of pneumonia
Saturday 23rd of November 1935 (+) — Cosmonaut Vladislav Volkov is born
Tuesday 30th of December 1941 (-) — Artist, designer, photographer and architect El Lissitzky dies of tuberculosis
Wednesday 11th of February 1948 (-) — Film director Sergeï Eisenstein dies of a heart attack
Thursday 5th of March 1953 (-) — Composer, pianist and conductor Sergei Prokofiev dies of a cerebral hemorrhage
Sunday 31st of May 1953 (-) — Artist Vladimir Tatlin dies of unknown causes
Friday 12th of February 1954 (-) — Film director Dziga Vertov dies of cancer
Monday 3rd of December 1956 (-) — Constructivist and productivist artist Alexander Rodchenko dies of unknown causes
Friday 16th of October 1959 (x) — Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald arrives
Friday 19th of August 1960 (x) — United States Air Force pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for spying
Saturday 29th of December 1962 (+) — Serial killer Sergei Ryakhovsky is born
Friday 31st of January 1964 (x) — Serial killer Vladimir Ionesyan is sentenced to death for five murders
With the proceeds of his crimes Ionesyan supported his former‐ballerina girlfriend Alevtina Dmitrieva. She was sentenced to 15 years as his accomplice.
Saturday 1st of February 1964 (-) — Serial killer Vladimir Ionesyan is executed by the firing squad
Wednesday 22nd of January 1969 (x) — USSR-cosmonauts Vladimir Shatalov, Boris Volynov, Yevgeny Khrunov and Aleksei Yeliseyev who had just returned with their Soyoez 4 and 5 spacecrafts are injured by Would-be assassin Viktor Ilyin who fired shots into the motorcade while attempting to kill Leonid Brezhnev
Ilyin assumed the second car carried Brezhnev. Unbeknownst to him this Zil limousine was filled only with cosmonauts from earlier missions: Alexey Leonov, Valentina Tereshkova, Georgy Beregovoy and Andrian Nikolayev.
Saturday 10th of January 1970 (-) — Cosmonaut Pavel Belyayev dies of peritonitis that resulted from an operation on a stomach ulcer
Saturday 11th of September 1971 (-) — First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev dies of a heart attack
Saturday 23rd of December 1972 (-) — Aircraft designer Andrei Tupolev dies of unknown causes
Tuesday 12th of February 1974 (x) — Writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is arrested and deported the next day from the Soviet Union to Frankfurt, West Germany and stripped of his Soviet citizenship
Saturday 9th of August 1975 (-) — Composer Dmitri Shostakovich dies of lung cancer
Wednesday 9th of February 1977 (-) — Engineer and aircraft designer Sergey Ilyushin dies of unknown causes
Tuesday 22nd of January 1980 (x) — Nuclear physicist, Soviet dissident and human rights activist Andrei Sakharov is arrested following his public protests against the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in 1979 and sent to internal exile in the city of Gorky
Thursday 18th of December 1980 (-) — Soviet statesman Alexei Kosygin dies of a heart attack
Wednesday 12th of January 1983 (-) — Soviet Ukrainian statesman during the Cold War Nikolai Podgorny dies of cancer
Thursday 9th of February 1984 (-) — Soviet leader Yuri Andropov dies of interstitial nephritis, nephrosclerosis, residual hypertension and diabetes and chronic kidney deficiency
Sunday 10th of March 1985 (-) — Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko dies of a combination of chronic emphysema, an enlarged and damaged heart, congestive heart failure and liver cirrhosis
Saturday 8th of November 1986 (-) — Politician and diplomat Vyacheslav Molotov dies of natural causes
Monday 19th of October 1987 (x) — Five of the highest ranked generals of the Red Army, 63-year-old Colonel General Vladimir P. Shutov, 51-year-old Major General Yerlen V. Porfiyev, 49-year-old Major General Vladimir S. Bardashevsky, 66-year-old Lieutenant General Kiril N. Trofimov, 53-year-old Lieutenant General Yuri I. Ryabinin and crewmen 36-year-old Captain Alexei N. Gurenkov and 30-year-old Lieutenant Alexander I. Goncharov are killed in a helicopter crash
Thursday 14th of December 1989 (-) — Nuclear physicist, Soviet dissident and human rights activist Andrei Sakharov dies of arrhythmia consequent to dilated cardiomyopathy
Sunday 2nd of July 1989 (-) — Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Andrei Gromyko dies of a vascular problem
Tuesday 13th of April 1993 (x) — Serial killer Sergei Ryakhovsky is arrested
Ryakhovsky was under suspicion of killing 19 men and women between 14 and 78 years old.
Wednesday 3rd of November 1993 (-) — Inventor Léon Theremin dies of natural causes
Wednesday 20th of September 2000 (-) — Cosmonaut Gherman Titov dies of a heart attack
Titov was the second person to orbit the earth aboard Vostok 2 on 6 August 1961, preceded by Yuri Gagarin.
Saturday 12th of May 2001 (-) — Aircraft designer Alexei Tupolev dies of a long illness
Friday 15th of April 2005 — The Eyes Had it: The Lenin Mausoleum early in the morning
Friday 16th of June 2006 (x) — Serial killer Alexander Pichushkin is arrested
Monday 23rd of April 2007 (-) — First President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin dies of
Thursday 13th of September 2007 (x) — Start of the trial against Serial killer Alexander Pichushkin
Pichushkin asked a Russian court to add an additional 11 victims to his body count, bringing his claimed death toll to 60, and 3 surviving victims.
Sunday 3rd of August 2008 (-) — Writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn dies of heart failure
Friday 11th of October 2019 (-) — Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov dies of a long illness
