1781 in Russia

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Events from the year 1781 in Russia

Incumbents

• Monarch – Catherine II

Events

• Austro-Russian alliance (1781)
• Cheboksary granted city status
• Great Gatchina Palace completed
• Nazran founded; largest city in Ingushetia
• Ufa Viceroyalty established

Births

Alexander Vostokov

• Alexander Bulgakov (d. 1863) - diplomat, senator, postal official
• Ilya Gruzinov (d. 1813) - professor of anatomy and physiology
• Mikhail Malakhov (d. 1842) - architect
• Gleb Shishmaryov (d. 1835) - admiral, navigator, explorer
• Nikita Volkonsky (d. 1844) - aristocrat and general
• Alexander Vostokov (d. 1864) - philologist and poet

Deaths

Catherine Orlova by Fyodor Rokotov, 1779

• Ivan Bagration (b. 1725) - general of Georgian royal origin
• Abram Petrovich Gannibal (b. circa 1696) - military engineer, general, nobleman
• Johann Anton Güldenstädt (b. 1745) - naturalist and explorer
• Alexey Nagayev (b. 1704) - hydrographer, cartographer, admiral
• Ekaterina Orlova (courtier) (b. 1758) - lady-in-waiting to Catherine the Great

References

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