1766 in Russia
Events from the year '''1766 in Russia'''
Incumbents
Events
- Russian Theatre was founded.
- Assembly of the Nobility was founded.
- Gorodetsk was renamed to Bezhetsk.
- Catherine the Great started educational reforms.
- Gatchina Palace started construction.
- Leonhard Euler returned to the St. Petersburg Academy.
- Sterlitamak was founded.
Birth
- Vasily Pushkin, Russian poet
- Nikolay Karamzin, Russian historian
- Gustav Ernst von Stackelberg, Russian diplomat
- Natalia Kurakina, Russian composer
- Varvara Golovina, Russian artist
- Stepan Degtyarev, Russian composer
- Adam Laxman, Finnish–Swedish military officer
- Ivan Valberkh, Russian dancer
- Fyodor Petrovich Lvov, Russian composer
Death
- Ivan Polzunov, Russian inventor
- Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin, Russian diplomat and chancellor
- Andrei Ivanovich Bogdanov, Russian bibliographers