1766 in Russia

Events from the year 1766 in Russia

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Catherine II

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 (d. 1830)
 * Nikolay Karamzin, Russian historian (d. 1826)
 * Gustav Ernst von Stackelberg, Russian diplomat (d. 1850)
 * Natalia Kurakina, Russian composer (d. 1831)
 * Varvara Golovina, Russian artist (d. 1821)
 * Stepan Degtyarev, Russian composer (d. 1813)
 * Adam Laxman, Finnish–Swedish military officer (d. 1806)
 * Ivan Valberkh, Russian dancer (d. 1819)
 * Fyodor Petrovich Lvov, Russian composer

Death

 * Ivan Polzunov, Russian inventor
 * Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin, Russian diplomat and chancellor
 * Andrei Ivanovich Bogdanov, Russian bibliographers