On this day

The first chronicle mention of Moscow

4 April 1147

According to the Ipatiev Chronicle reports, on April 4, 1147, on the day of “Heel in Praise of the Mother of God” in a settlement called “Moskov” a meeting between the Rostov-Suzdal prince Yuri Dolgoruky and his ally, the Novgorod-Seversk prince Svyatoslav Olgovich, took place. It is customary to count the history of Moscow from this first written mention.

The first Baltic Navy frigate ‘Standard’ is laid

4 April 1703

On March 24 (April 4), 1703 in Olonetsk shipyard on the river of Svir’ (lake of  Ladoga region) Vybe Herens, a shipwright from Amsterdam laid the first Russian sailing military ship of Baltic Navy, the frigate ‘Standard’.

Russia and Great Britain signed Petersburg protocol

4 April 1826

March 23 (April 4) 1826 in St. Petersburg the governments of Russia and Great Britain signed the British-Russian protocol on joint actions in the settlement of the Greek question - the armed struggle of the Greek people for independence from the Ottoman Empire.
 

The Sakha (Yakutia) Republic Constitution adopted

4 April 1992

April 4th, 1992 at an extraordinary Eleventh session of the Supreme Council of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, its Constitution was adopted. The adopted document had a preamble, eight chapters comprising 144 articles, and transitional provisions in three articles. It was the first Constitution in the post-Soviet Russia.