27 July — the charter of an insurance company submitted by Baron Stieglitz was registered. The company enjoyed a twenty-year privilege consisting of the exclusive right to provide insurance in the St. Petersburg, Moscow, Estland, Courland, and Livland provinces, and in the city of Odessa. The company was exempt from all taxes except the insurance duty of 25 kopecks for each thousand rubles of the insured amount. Before this, only the English insurance company "Phoenix" operated in Russia.
1 October — Russian troops captured the fortress city of Erivan (Yerevan). Armenia was annexed to the Russian Empire.
A. S. Pushkin arrived in St. Petersburg from his exile in May, having spent several months in Moscow. Pushkin lived at Demut's inn, wrote a great deal, and was not as consistently satisfied with himself as before. His mother, Nadezhda Osipovna, lured him to dinner at her home on the Fontanka with baked potatoes, of which he was very fond. He celebrated his name day at his parents' house. Abram Sergeyevich Norov reproached Anna Petrovna Kern for not giving Pushkin anything, though he had written so many beautiful poems for her. She took a ring off her finger and gave it to him as a keepsake. The next day Pushkin brought Anna Petrovna a gift: a ring with three diamonds. From early July to early October, Pushkin lived in Mikhaylovskoye.