1766 in Russia
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Events from the year 1766 in Russia
Incumbents
Events
- Russian Theatre was founded.
- Assembly of the Nobility was founded.{{Cite web |last=Manaev |first=Georgy |date=2022-01-02 |title=How women voted in Russia for the first time |url=https://www.rbth.com/history/334609-how-women-voted-in-russia |access-date=2024-01-15 |website=Russia Beyond |language=en-US}}
- Gorodetsk was renamed to Bezhetsk.{{Cite web |title=Bezhetsk :: Regions & Cities :: Russia-InfoCentre |url=http://russia-ic.com/regions/3600/5433/ |access-date=2024-01-15 |website=russia-ic.com}}
- Catherine the Great started educational reforms.{{Cite web |date=2014-03-08 |title=The Role of Catherine the Great in Promoting Education and Health Care in Russia - Writers Bureau Centre |url=https://writersbureau.net/jede-journal/the-role-of-catherine-the-great-in-promoting-education-and-health-care-in-russia/ |access-date=2024-01-15 |language=en-US}}
- Gatchina Palace started construction.{{Cite web |title=Gatchina Palace, Gatchina, Russia - SpottingHistory |url=https://www.spottinghistory.com/view/1896/gatchina-palace/ |access-date=2024-01-15 |website=www.spottinghistory.com |language=en}}
- Leonhard Euler returned to the St. Petersburg Academy.{{Cite web |title=How Leonhard Euler Produced the Most Beautiful Equation in Mathematics |url=https://www.thoughtco.com/leonhard-euler-biography-4174374 |access-date=2024-01-15 |website=ThoughtCo |language=en}}
- Sterlitamak was founded.
Birth
- Vasily Pushkin, Russian poet (d. 1830){{Cite web |last=peoples.ru |title=Биография Василий Пушкин |url=https://www.peoples.ru/art/literature/poetry/contemporary/vasiliy_pushkin/index.html |access-date=2024-01-15 |website=www.peoples.ru |language=ru}}
- Nikolay Karamzin, Russian historian (d. 1826){{Cite web |title=Nikolaj Karamzin (1766-1826) – HAB |url=https://www.hab.de/en/nikolaj-karamzin-1766-1826/ |access-date=2024-01-15 |language=en-US}}
- Gustav Ernst von Stackelberg, Russian diplomat (d. 1850){{Cite web |title=The Role of Baltic Germans in the Foreign Service of the Russian Empire and in European Politics during the Rule of Alexander I |url=https://www.ra.ee/tuna/en/the-role-of-baltic-germans-in-the-foreign-service-of-the-russian-empire-and-in-european-politics-during-the-rule-of-alexander-i/ |access-date=2024-01-15 |website=Tuna |language=en-US}}
- Natalia Kurakina, Russian composer (d. 1831){{Cite web |date=2022-07-21 |title="I hear the harp..."[1] The Era of Peter the Great and Its Role in the Evolution of Russian Music {{!}} The Tretyakov Gallery Magazine |url=https://www.tretyakovgallerymagazine.com/node/8383 |access-date=2024-01-15 |website=www.tretyakovgallerymagazine.com |language=en}}
- Varvara Golovina, Russian artist (d. 1821){{Cite web |title=Countess Varvara Nicolaevna Golovina |url=https://www.batguano.com/xgolovina.html |access-date=2024-01-15 |website=www.batguano.com}}
- Stepan Degtyarev, Russian composer (d. 1813){{Cite web |title=Degtyarevsky Stepan Onikiyovych - Ukrainian Musical World |url=https://musical-world.com.ua/en/artists/degtyarevsky-stepan-onikiyovych/ |access-date=2024-01-15 |language=en-GB}}
- Adam Laxman, Finnish–Swedish military officer (d. 1806){{Cite journal |last=Ravina |first=Mark |date=2015 |title=Tokugawa, Romanov, and Khmer: The Politics of Trade and Diplomacy in Eighteenth-Century East Asia |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43901753 |journal=Journal of World History |volume=26 |issue=2 |pages=269–294 |jstor=43901753 |issn=1045-6007}}
- Ivan Valberkh, Russian dancer (d. 1819){{Cite web |title=Ivan Valberkh |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803115044922 |access-date=2024-01-16 |website=Oxford Reference |language=en }}
- Fyodor Petrovich Lvov, Russian composer
Death
- Ivan Polzunov, Russian inventor{{Cite web |last1=Address: 119234 |first1=Founder: Non-Profit Partnership “International Scientific Knowledge Outreach Partnership” |last2=Moscow |last3=GSP-1 |last4=Gory |first4=Vorobyovy |last5=MSU |last6=Bld. 46 |last7=Tel./Fax: +7939-42-66 |first7=Office 138 Show map |last8=address: 119234 |first8=+7939-45-63 Mailing |last9=Moscow |date=2019-11-06 |title=Ivan Polzunov |url=https://en.scientificrussia.ru/articles/ivan-polzunov-2 |access-date=2024-01-15 |website=«Научная Россия» - электронное периодическое издание |language=en}}
- Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin, Russian diplomat and chancellor{{Cite web |title=Birthday anniversary of count Alexei P. Bestuzhev-Ryumin, Russian statesman and diplomat |url=https://www.prlib.ru/en/history/619279 |access-date=2024-01-15 |website=Presidential Library |language=en}}
- Andrei Ivanovich Bogdanov, Russian bibliographers{{Cite web |title=ON THE HISTORY OF CREATING A MULTI-VOLUME COLLECTION OF PRINTS FROM THE EDITIONS DEPARTMENT OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (BAN) |url=https://scholar.archive.org/work/ps67qzzmorfahhzam32l6pjjsu/access/wayback/https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/k-istorii-sozdaniya-mnogotomnogo-sobraniya-gravyur-iz-otdela-izdaniy-akademii-nauk-ban/pdf}}