1771 in Russia

Events from the year 1771 in Russia

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Catherine II

Events

 * Moscow plague riot of 1771
 * Pyatnitskoye cemetery

Births

 * 12 October 1771 - Count Mikhail Miloradovich, Russian general of Serbian origin, prominent during the Napoleonic Wars. (d. 1825)

Deaths

 * 29 April - Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Italian architect who worked mainly in Russia. (b. 1700)