1787 in Russia

Last updated January 04, 2026

Events from the year 1787 in Russia

Incumbents

Monarch – Catherine II

Events

Black Sea Cossack Host formed
Crimean journey of Catherine the Great
Russo-Turkish War (1787–92) begins
- Battle of Kinburn (1787)
Lomonosov Bridge completed in Saint Petersburg

Births

Alexander Alyabyev – composer
Grigol Bagration of Mukhrani – Georgian nobleman, Russian officer
Konstantin Batyushkov – poet, essayist, and translator
Jean Armand de Lestocq – French doctor, adventurer, and courtier
Alexander Ivanovich Dmitriev-Mamonov – general and painter of battle scenes
Nikolay Gretsch – writer, grammarian, and journalist
Semyon Korsakov – homeopath and inventor
Michael Lunin – political philosopher, revolutionary
Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov – nobleman, general, government official
Ivan Nabokov – general
Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov – general, diplomat, and statesman
Antony Pogorelsky – writer
Alexandr Mikhailovich Potemkin – nobleman and soldier, patron of the Holy Mountains Lavra monastery
Nymphodora Semenova – opera singer
Aleksei Sokolov – priest who lived in Russian Alaska
Pavel Svinyin – writer, painter, editor
Aleksandr Vitberg – architect
Otto von Kotzebue – navy captain, explorer
Maksim Vorobyov – landscape painter
Yekaterina Yezhova – actress and socialite

Deaths

Alexei Antonovich of Brunswick – member of the royal family
Alexei Turchaninov – businessman

References

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v t e 1787 in Asia
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1787 in Russia

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