1742 in Russia

• Monarch – Elizabeth{{Cite web|url=http://www.saint-petersburg.com/royal-family/elizabeth/|title=Elizabeth I of Russia|website=Saint-Petersburg.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190203041628/http://www.saint-petersburg.com/royal-family/elizabeth/|archive-date=2019-02-03}}{{Cite web|url=https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-rule-of-elizabeth-of-russia.html|title=The Rule Of Elizabeth of Russia|website=Study.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170309015628/https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-rule-of-elizabeth-of-russia.html|archive-date=2017-03-09}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-empress-of-Russia|title=Biography of Elizabeth Empress of Russia|date=2019-08-20|website=Encyclopedia Britannica}}

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• The Lopukhina Conspiracy arises at the Russian court.[http://www.biografija.ru/show_bio.aspx?id=78972 Лопухина Наталья Федоровна - biografija.ru]Nisbet Bain (1854–1909), [http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camenaref/cmh/cmh610.html Russia under Anna and Elizabeth], public domain.
• Peter III of Russia is brought to Russia from Germany by his aunt, Elizabeth I, to be received by the Russian Orthodox Church and declared heir to the Russian throne.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-III-emperor-of-Russia|title=Peter III emperor of Russia|website=Encyclopaedia Britannica|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190723000849/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-III-emperor-of-Russia|archive-date=2019-07-23}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.biography.com/political-figure/peter-iii|title=Peter III Biography|website=Biography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190703135958/https://www.biography.com/political-figure/peter-iii|archive-date=2019-07-03}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.saint-petersburg.com/royal-family/peter-iii/|title=Biography of Peter III, Emperor of Russia|website=Saint-Petersburg.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408140103/http://www.saint-petersburg.com/royal-family/peter-iii/|archive-date=2019-04-08}}
• Christian Goldbach becomes a staff member of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and proposes what will become known as Goldbach's conjecture in a letter to Leonhard Euler.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christian-Goldbach|title=Christian Goldbach {{!}} Russian mathematician|website=Encyclopaedia Britannica|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190423021131/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christian-Goldbach|archive-date=2019-04-23}}{{Cite web|url=http://eulerarchive.maa.org/correspondence/correspondents/Goldbach.html|title=Euler's Correspondence with Christian Goldbach|website=The Euler Archive}}{{Cite web|url=http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GoldbachConjecture.html|title=Goldbach Conjecture|website=Wolfram Mathworld|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190728161215/http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GoldbachConjecture.html|archive-date=2019-07-28}}
• Elizabeth I reconfirms a Ukase issued by Peter the Great and expels Jews from the Russian Empire.{{Cite web|url=https://jguideeurope.org/en/region/russia/|title=Russia-Jewish heritage|website=JGuideEurope|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425015512/https://jguideeurope.org/en/region/russia/|archive-date=2019-04-25}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6a865c.html|title=Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union: Chronology of Events: 1727 - 1 January 1992|date=1994-11-01|website=UNHCR refworld}}

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• Yemelyan Pugachev was an ataman of the Yaik Cossacks who led a great popular insurrection during the reign of Catherine the Great. (d. 1775){{Cite web|url=https://w.histrf.ru/articles/article/show/pugachiov_iemielian_ivanovich_rukovoditiel_kriestianskoi_voiny|title=ПУГАЧЁВ ЕМЕЛЬЯН ИВАНОВИЧ - РУКОВОДИТЕЛЬ КРЕСТЬЯНСКОЙ ВОЙНЫ (Pugachev Emelyan Ivanovich - Head of the Peasant War)|website=ЭНЦИКЛОПЕДИЯ Всемирная история/The World History Encyclopedia|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180423210140/http://w.histrf.ru/articles/article/show/pugachiov_iemielian_ivanovich_rukovoditiel_kriestianskoi_voiny|archive-date=2018-04-23}}{{Cite web|url=http://hrono.ru/biograf/bio_p/pugachev_ei.php|title=Biographic index of Emelyan Ivanovich Pugachev|website=ХРОНОС|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190210091005/http://hrono.ru/biograf/bio_p/pugachev_ei.php|archive-date=2019-02-10}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Yemelyan-Pugachov|title=Yemelyan Pugachov|website=Encyclopaedia Britannica|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190421234410/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Yemelyan-Pugachov|archive-date=2019-04-21}}

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