1766 in Russia

Events from the year 1766 in Russia

Incumbents

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, Finnish–Swedish military officer (d. 1806)[12]
  • Ivan Valberkh, Russian dancer (d. 1819)[13]
  • Fyodor Petrovich Lvov, Russian composer

Death

References

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  2. ^ "Bezhetsk :: Regions & Cities :: Russia-InfoCentre". russia-ic.com. Retrieved 2024-01-15.
  3. ^ "The Role of Catherine the Great in Promoting Education and Health Care in Russia - Writers Bureau Centre". 2014-03-08. Retrieved 2024-01-15.
  4. ^ "Gatchina Palace, Gatchina, Russia - SpottingHistory". www.spottinghistory.com. Retrieved 2024-01-15.
  5. ^ "How Leonhard Euler Produced the Most Beautiful Equation in Mathematics". ThoughtCo. Retrieved 2024-01-15.
  6. ^ peoples.ru. "Биография Василий Пушкин". www.peoples.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-01-15.
  7. ^ "Nikolaj Karamzin (1766-1826) – HAB". Retrieved 2024-01-15.
  8. ^ "The Role of Baltic Germans in the Foreign Service of the Russian Empire and in European Politics during the Rule of Alexander I". Tuna. Retrieved 2024-01-15.
  9. ^ ""I hear the harp..."[1] The Era of Peter the Great and Its Role in the Evolution of Russian Music | The Tretyakov Gallery Magazine". www.tretyakovgallerymagazine.com. 2022-07-21. Retrieved 2024-01-15.
  10. ^ "Countess Varvara Nicolaevna Golovina". www.batguano.com. Retrieved 2024-01-15.
  11. ^ "Degtyarevsky Stepan Onikiyovych - Ukrainian Musical World". Retrieved 2024-01-15.
  12. ^ Ravina, Mark (2015). "Tokugawa, Romanov, and Khmer: The Politics of Trade and Diplomacy in Eighteenth-Century East Asia". Journal of World History. 26 (2): 269–294. ISSN 1045-6007. JSTOR 43901753.
  13. ^ "Ivan Valberkh". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
  14. ^ Address: 119234, Founder: Non-Profit Partnership “International Scientific Knowledge Outreach Partnership”; Moscow; GSP-1; Gory, Vorobyovy; MSU; Bld. 46; Tel./Fax: +7939-42-66, Office 138 Show map; address: 119234, +7939-45-63 Mailing; Moscow (2019-11-06). "Ivan Polzunov". «Научная Россия» - электронное периодическое издание. Retrieved 2024-01-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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  16. ^ "ON THE HISTORY OF CREATING A MULTI-VOLUME COLLECTION OF PRINTS FROM THE EDITIONS DEPARTMENT OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (BAN)".