8 January. A.P. Chekhov, as guest, arrived to D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak in Tsarskoye Selo.
The almshouse, in the memory of the merchants Sinebryukhovs, for girls and aged women began to work in Moskovskaya Street. 14 May. The coronation of Emperor Nicholas I took place in the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin.
The Palace electric power station was constructed (architect S.A. Danini). The inner electric equipment was installed by the prominent electric-engineer L.R. Shvede who became the first director of the electric power station. The electric power station began to work on 8 November 1898 (its present address is 3 Tserkovnaya Street).
A.R. Bach took up the post of the architect of the Palace Board. His appartment was placed in the house at the corner of Leontyevskaya Street and Srednyaya Street. А.R. Bach was buried in the Kuzminsky Cemetery, his grave was restored in 2007 .
The autumn. I.F. Annensky, poet and teacher, accepted the offer to take the post as the director of the Tsarskoye Selo Nicholas Man Gymnasium. He received the official appartment at the gymnasium.
Nikolai Nikolayevich Punin, the future art historian, literary critic, teacher, had entered the Nicholas Gymnasium. Valentin Krivich, son of Annensky, graduated from the gymnasium.
Persons
Annensky Innokenty Fedorovich Annensky, Valentin Innokentyevich (pseudonym: Valentin Krivich) Bach Alexander Romanovich Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Danini Silvio Amvrosievich Mamin-Sibiryak (real name Mamin) Dmitry Narkisovich Nicholas II, Emperor Punin Nikolay Nikolaevich Shvede, L.R.
