1783 in Russia

Events from the year 1783 in Russia

Incumbents

• Monarch – Catherine II

Events

• Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Empire
• Black Sea Fleet founded
• Bolshoi Theatre, Saint Petersburg first built
• Church of St. Catherine (Saint Petersburg) completed
• Kuban Nogai Uprising
• Malo-Kalinkin Bridge (St. Petersburg) built
• Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra founded
• Russian Academy founded
• Sevastopol Naval Base completed
• Treaty of Georgievsk - Georgian kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti becomes a Russian protectorate
• Vladimir Central Prison founded

Births

Nasezhda Durova (1783-1866)

• Catherine Bagration - princess known for eccentric life abroad
• Andrej Dudrovich - philosopher, president of Kharkov University
• Nadezhda Durova - soldier
• Alexander Ivanovich Galich - philosopher and writer
• Paisi Kaysarov - general
• Pyotr Kozlovsky - diplomat and writer
• Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron - French emigre, general
• Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia - daughter of Paul I of Russia
• Alexander Sablukov - general, inventor
• Fyodor Shubin - soldier, founder of Nur-Sultan
• Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy - artist
• Friedrich Caspar von Geismar - Austrian-German who became Russian general
• Friedrich von Rüdiger - general
• Vasily Zhukovsky - poet, imperial tutor

Deaths

Field Marshal Aleksandr Mikhailovich Golitsyn, 1718-1783

• Alexander Ablesimov - writer
• Alexander Mikhailovich Golitsyn - general and statesman
• Gerhard Friedrich Müller - ethnographer and historian
• Grigory Orlov - favorite of Catherine the Great
• Nikita Ivanovich Panin - advisor to Catherine the Great
• Tikhon of Zadonsk - bishop, writer, saint

References

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