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