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)