1769 in Russia

This is a list of notable events from the year 1769 in Russia.

Incumbents

Monarch – Catherine II

Events

Russo-Turkish War (1768–74): Russian forces take the Ottoman fortress of Chocim in Bukovina.

Birth

Aleksey Arakcheyev, Russian general Ekaterina Feodorovna Baryatinskaya-Dolgorukova, Russian court official Yevgeni Ivanovich Markov, Russian infantry commander Georgiy Evseevich Eristov, Russian nobleman Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general Boris Vladimirovich Golitsyn, Russian aristocrat

Death

Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet Stepan Glotov, Russian navigator

References