1787 in Russia

• Monarch – Catherine II

• Black Sea Cossack Host formed
• Crimean journey of Catherine the Great
• Russo-Turkish War (1787–92) begins
  • Battle of Kinburn (1787)
• Lomonosov Bridge completed in Saint Petersburg

• Alexander Alyabyev – composer
• Grigol Bagration of Mukhrani – Georgian nobleman, Russian officer
• Konstantin Batyushkov – poet, essayist, and translator
• Jean Armand de Lestocq – French doctor, adventurer, and courtier
• Alexander Ivanovich Dmitriev-Mamonov – general and painter of battle scenes
• Nikolay Gretsch – writer, grammarian, and journalist
• Semyon Korsakov – homeopath and inventor
• Michael Lunin – political philosopher, revolutionary
• Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov – nobleman, general, government official
• Ivan Nabokov – general
• Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov – general, diplomat, and statesman
• Antony Pogorelsky – writer
• Alexandr Mikhailovich Potemkin – nobleman and soldier, patron of the Holy Mountains Lavra monastery
• Nymphodora Semenova – opera singer
• Aleksei Sokolov – priest who lived in Russian Alaska
• Pavel Svinyin – writer, painter, editor
• Aleksandr Vitberg – architect
• Otto von Kotzebue – navy captain, explorer
• Maksim Vorobyov – landscape painter
• Yekaterina Yezhova – actress and socialite

• Alexei Antonovich of Brunswick – member of the royal family
• Alexei Turchaninov – businessman

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