1766 in Russia
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Events from the year 1766 in Russia
Incumbents
- Monarch â Catherine II
Events
- Russian Theatre was founded.
- Assembly of the Nobility was founded.[1]
- Gorodetsk was renamed to Bezhetsk.[2]
- Catherine the Great started educational reforms.[3]
- Gatchina Palace started construction.[4]
- Leonhard Euler returned to the St. Petersburg Academy.[5]
- Sterlitamak was founded.
Birth
- Vasily Pushkin, Russian poet (d. 1830)[6]
- Nikolay Karamzin, Russian historian (d. 1826)[7]
- Gustav Ernst von Stackelberg, Russian diplomat (d. 1850)[8]
- Natalia Kurakina, Russian composer (d. 1831)[9]
- Varvara Golovina, Russian artist (d. 1821)[10]
- Stepan Degtyarev, Russian composer (d. 1813)[11]
- Adam Laxman, FinnishâSwedish military officer (d. 1806)[12]
- Ivan Valberkh, Russian dancer (d. 1819)[13]
- Fyodor Petrovich Lvov, Russian composer
Death
- Ivan Polzunov, Russian inventor[14]
- Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin, Russian diplomat and chancellor[15]
- Andrei Ivanovich Bogdanov, Russian bibliographers[16]