1761 in Russia

Events from the year 1761 in Russia

Incumbents

• Monarch – Elizabeth

Events

• 1 April — The Russian Empire and the Austrian Empire sign a treaty of alliance.
• 16 December — Under the leadership of Pyotr Rumyantsev, Russian forces besiege and take control of the Prussian city of Kolberg during the Seven Years' War.

Births

• Apollon Aleksandrovich Maykov, poet (d.1838)
• Yekaterina Sinyavina, composer (d.1784)
• Yekaterina von Engelhardt, noblewoman (d.1829)
• Yelizaveta Palmenbach, pedagogue (d.1832)
• 19 July ― Vasily Vladimirovich Petrov, experimental physicist (d.1834)
• 16 August ― Yevstigney Fomin, opera composer (d.1800)
• 19 August ― Andreyan Zakharov, architect (d.1811)
• 27 September ― Karl Gustav von Baggovut, military leader (d.1812)
• December — Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, military leader (d.1818)

Deaths

• Ivan Vishnyakov, painter (b.1699)

References

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