1777 in Russia

This is a list of notable events from the year 1777 in Russia.

Incumbents

Pavlovsk was founded.{{Cite web |title=Pavlovsk {{!}} Imperial Palace, Park, Catherine II {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Pavlovsk |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
Rybnaya sloboda was renamed Rybinsk.{{Cite web |title=Rybinsk {{!}} Volga River, Yaroslavl, Shipbuilding {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Rybinsk |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
Stavropol was founded.
Russo-Prussian Alliance was extended.{{Cite book |url=https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691196442/the-grand-strategy-of-the-habsburg-empire |title=The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire |date=2019-10-01 |isbn=978-0-691-19644-2 |language=en |last1=Wess Mitchell |first1=A. |publisher=Princeton University Press }}
Beloozero was renamed Belozersk.{{Cite web |title=Вологодская энциклопедия |url=https://www.booksite.ru/fulltext/sud/ako/vsk/aya/1.pdf}}

Alexander I of Russia, Emperor of Russia{{Cite web |date=2023-12-19 |title=Alexander I {{!}} Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-I-emperor-of-Russia |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, a Russian monk{{Cite web |title=Bichurin, Iakinf {{!}} BDCC |url=https://bdcconline.net/en/stories/bichurin-iakinf |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=bdcconline.net}}
Alexander Bashilov, a Russian general{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xPaRSQAACAAJ |title=Russian Commanders of the Napoleonic Wars: Leopold I of Belgium, Alexander I of Russia, Pyotr Bagration, Tolstoy |date=May 2010 |publisher=General Books |isbn=978-1-155-59720-1 |language=en}}
Peter Petrovich Dolgorukov, Russian officer{{Cite book |last=Шенкман |first=Григорий |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tugiAQAAIAAJ |title=Они родились в 1777 году |date=2008 |publisher=Алетейя |isbn=978-5-91419-093-1 |language=ru}}
Anna Lopukhina, Russian imperial mistress{{Cite book |last=Wortman |first=Richard S. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt4cgc44 |title=Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy from Peter the Great to the Abdication of Nicholas II |date=2006 |edition=New Abridged One-Volume Paperback |publisher=Princeton University Press |jstor=j.ctt4cgc44 |isbn=978-0-691-12374-5}}
Karl Wilhelm von Toll, Russian military leader

Alexander Sumarokov, Russian poet{{Cite book |last=Riasanovsky |first=Nicholas Valentine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KRjcXHliMpcC |title=A History of Russia |date=2000 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-512179-7 |language=en}}