1718 in Russia

Incumbents

• Monarch – Peter I

Events

• 12 April - The Neva Yacht Club is founded
• 12 December - The Admiralty Board is established

Births

• 20 August - Natalia Petrovna, grand duchess, daughter of Peter I
• 18 September - Nikita Ivanovich Panin, statesman
• 17 November - Alexander Mikhailovich Golitsyn, prince, field-marshal, Governor of St. Petersburg
• 18 December - Anna Leopoldovna, briefly regent of Russia

Deaths

• 1 May - Tsarevna Catherine Alekseyevna of Russia
• 26 June - Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia

• Andrey Khilkov, ambassador to Sweden
• Alexander Kikin, adviser to Tsarevich Alexei