Cancrin submitted to Emperor Alexander a very sensible memorandum on the emancipation of the peasants. Many believe that this memorandum prompted Alexander to instruct Arakcheev to draw up a plan for the gradual emancipation of the peasants.
In Moscow, a monument to K. Minin and D. Pozharsky, the work of the sculptor I. P. Martos, was erected.
In St. Petersburg, the Expedition for the Preparation of State Papers was established, engaged in issuing bank and treasury notes and documents of strict accountability.
Nikolai Pavlovich is 21 years old, but he has already become a father—the future Russian emperor Alexander II was born.
The Pushkin family lives in a house next to Countess Ekaterina Markovna Ivelich (on the Fontanka, near the Kalinkin Bridge). During Holy Week, the Pushkins and Countess Ivelich observed the fast and attended services together at the church of the Theatre School. After a severe fever, Alexander’s head was shaved and he wears a wig. By July, about 30 of his poems had been published. He is not particularly handsome, lively and fidgety, and he gladly socializes with A. S. Griboedov, P. A. Katenin, and A. A. Zhandr, who treat him as elders do a younger man.
25 September — physician James Blundell, one of the founders of blood transfusion and pediatric resuscitation, performed the world’s first operation of transfusing blood from one person to another. This British obstetrician carried out the first successful transfusion of human blood to a patient with postpartum hemorrhage. Using the patient’s husband as the donor, Blundell took almost 4 ounces of blood from his arm and, using a syringe, transfused it to the woman.