1776 in Russia

Events from the year 1776 in the Russian Empire

Incumbents

• Monarch – Catherine the Great

Events

• 22 July – Empress Catherine the Great issues a revised Instruction (Nakaz), refining Enlightenment-inspired proposals for Russia’s legal code. ^[1]
• August – Establishment of the Novgorod Viceroyalty, subdivided into Novgorod and Olonets oblasts, as part of Catherine’s administrative reforms. ^[2]
• November – Russian troops intervene in the Crimean Khanate, enforcing Catherine’s decision to install Şahin Giray as khan. ^[3]
• Expansion of the Russian Assignation Bank network, with a new branch established in Tobolsk to extend circulation of paper rubles. ^[4]
• Further implementation of Catherine’s vice-regal reforms, aimed at centralising governance across the empire. ^[5]
• Russia maintains formal neutrality in the American Revolutionary War, rejecting British requests for troops. ^[6]

Births

• No verifiable records of culturally significant births directly tied to Russia in 1776.

Deaths

• 15 March – Natalia Alexeievna of Russia (1755–1776), first wife of the future Emperor Paul I. ^[7]
• Anna Vorontsova (date uncertain), member of the prominent Vorontsov noble family. ^[8]

References

1. De Madariaga, Isabel. Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great (Yale University Press, 1981).
2. Lyubskii, V.M. Administrative Reforms in Russia, 18th Century (Nauka, 1977).
3. Fisher, Alan W. The Russian Annexation of the Crimea, 1772–1783 (Cambridge University Press, 1970).
4. Kahan, Arcadius. The Plow, the Hammer, and the Knout: An Economic History of Eighteenth-Century Russia (University of Chicago Press, 1985).
5. Raeff, Marc. "The Well-Ordered Police State." Russian History, Vol. 10, No. 2 (1983), pp. 99–117.
6. Hosking, Geoffrey. Russia: People and Empire, 1552–1917 (Harvard University Press, 1997).
7. Rounding, Virginia. Catherine the Great: Love, Sex and Power (St. Martin's Press, 2006).
8. Hughes, Lindsey. Russia in the Age of Peter the Great (Yale University Press, 1998).

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