1742 in Russia

Events from the year 1742 in Russia

Incumbents

• Monarch – Elizabeth ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Events

• The Lopukhina Conspiracy arises at the Russian court. ^{[4] [5]}
• 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. ^{[6] [7] [8]}
• Christian Goldbach becomes a staff member of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs ^[9] and proposes what will become known as Goldbach's conjecture in a letter to Leonhard Euler. ^{[9] [10] [11]}
• Elizabeth I reconfirms a Ukase issued by Peter the Great and expels Jews from the Russian Empire. ^{[12] [13]}

Births

• Yemelyan Pugachev was an ataman of the Yaik Cossacks who led a great popular insurrection during the reign of Catherine the Great. (d. 1775) ^{[14] [15] [16]}

References

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14. "ПУГАЧЁВ ЕМЕЛЬЯН ИВАНОВИЧ - РУКОВОДИТЕЛЬ КРЕСТЬЯНСКОЙ ВОЙНЫ (Pugachev Emelyan Ivanovich - Head of the Peasant War)". ЭНЦИКЛОПЕДИЯ Всемирная история/The World History Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 2018-04-23.
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16. "Yemelyan Pugachov". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 2019-04-21.

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