• Source: 1766 in Russia

      • Events from the year 1766 in Russia


      Incumbents


      Monarch – Catherine II


      Events


      Russian Theatre was founded.
      Assembly of the Nobility was founded.
      Gorodetsk was renamed to Bezhetsk.
      Catherine the Great started educational reforms.
      Gatchina Palace started construction.
      Leonhard Euler returned to the St. Petersburg Academy.
      Sterlitamak was founded.


      Birth


      Vasily Pushkin, Russian poet (d. 1830)
      Nikolay Karamzin, Russian historian (d. 1826)
      Gustav Ernst von Stackelberg, Russian diplomat (d. 1850)
      Natalia Kurakina, Russian composer (d. 1831)
      Varvara Golovina, Russian artist (d. 1821)
      Stepan Degtyarev, Russian composer (d. 1813)
      Adam Laxman, Finnish–Swedish military officer (d. 1806)
      Ivan Valberkh, Russian dancer (d. 1819)
      Fyodor Petrovich Lvov, Russian composer


      Death


      Ivan Polzunov, Russian inventor
      Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin, Russian diplomat and chancellor
      Andrei Ivanovich Bogdanov, Russian bibliographers


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