1742 in Russia

Events from the year 1742 in Russia

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Elizabeth

Events

 * The Lopukhina Conspiracy arises at the Russian court.
 * Peter III of Russia is brought to Russia from Germany by his aunt, Elizabeth I, to be received by the Russian Orthodox Church and declared heir to the Russian throne.
 * Christian Goldbach becomes a staff member of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and proposes what will become known as Goldbach's conjecture in a letter to Leonhard Euler.
 * Elizabeth I reconfirms a Ukase issued by Peter the Great and expels Jews from the Russian Empire.
 * Elizabeth I reconfirms a Ukase issued by Peter the Great and expels Jews from the Russian Empire.

Births

 * Yemelyan Pugachev was an ataman of the Yaik Cossacks who led a great popular insurrection during the reign of Catherine the Great. (d. 1775)