Events from the year 1761 in Russia
Incumbents Monarch – Elizabeth
Events 1 April — The Russian Empire and the Austrian Empire sign a treaty of alliance. 16 December — Under the leadership of Pyotr Rumyantsev, Russian forces besiege and take control of the Prussian city of Kolberg during the Seven Years' War.
Births Apollon Aleksandrovich Maykov, poet (d.1838) Yekaterina Sinyavina, composer (d.1784) Yekaterina von Engelhardt, noblewoman (d.1829) Yelizaveta Palmenbach, pedagogue (d.1832) 19 July ― Vasily Vladimirovich Petrov, experimental physicist (d.1834) 16 August ― Yevstigney Fomin, opera composer (d.1800) 19 August ― Andreyan Zakharov, architect (d.1811) 27 September ― Karl Gustav von Baggovut, military leader (d.1812) December — Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, military leader (d.1818)
Deaths Ivan Vishnyakov, painter (b.1699)
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