1903 in Russia explained

Events from the year 1903 in Russia.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Nicholas II

Events

• 14 January - Opening of Hotel National, Moscow
• dates unknown
• 19-21 April - the 49 Jews are killed in the Kishinev Pogrom
• Chernoe Znamia
• Estonian Chess Championship
• Kharovsk
• Klavdiievo-Tarasove
• Mensheviks
• Rahumäe cemetery
• Ševčík-Lhotský Quartet
• Zimin Opera
• ongoing - Central Committee compositions elected by the 1st–3rd congresses of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

Births

11 July - Rudolf Abel, Anglo-Russian Soviet intelligence officer (1971)

25 September – Mark Rothko, Russian-American abstract artist (d. 1970)

Deaths

• 22 May – Dmitry Gamov, Russian general and explorer (b. 1834)