1742 in Russia
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Events from the year 1742 in Russia
Incumbents
Events
- The Lopukhina Conspiracy arises at the Russian court.[4][5]
- Peter III of Russia is brought to Russia from Germany by his aunt, Elizabeth I, to be received by the Russian Orthodox Church and declared heir to the Russian throne.[6][7][8]
- Christian Goldbach becomes a staff member of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs[9] and proposes what will become known as Goldbach's conjecture in a letter to Leonhard Euler.[9][10][11]
- Elizabeth I reconfirms a Ukase issued by Peter the Great and expels Jews from the Russian Empire.[12][13]
Births
- Yemelyan Pugachev was an ataman of the Yaik Cossacks who led a great popular insurrection during the reign of Catherine the Great. (d. 1775)[14][15][16]
