1782 in Russia

Events from the year 1782 in Russia

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Catherine II

Events

 * Bronze Horseman, sculpture of Peter the Great, unveiled in St. Petersburg
 * The Minor (Fonvizin play) first performed
 * Order of Saint Vladimir established
 * Siberia Governorate, Orenburg Governorate, and others dissolved as part of a general administrative reorganization

Births

 * Stepan Andreyevskiy - general
 * Constantine IV, Prince of Mukhrani - Georgian nobleman, Russian general
 * Philaret Drozdov - Russian Orthodox Metropolitan of Moscow
 * Yevgeny Golovin - general
 * Afanasy Grigoriev - architect
 * Pyotr Kotlyarevsky - hero of the Russo-Turkish War and Russo-Persian War
 * Vasili Krasovsky - writer
 * Orest Kiprensky - portrait artist
 * Yakov Kolokolnikov-Voronin - artist
 * Valerian Madatov - Armenian prince, Russian general
 * Pavel Martynov - general
 * Ivan Paskevich - general
 * Konstantin Poltoratsky - general
 * Sophie Swetchine - mystic
 * Prince Teimuraz of Georgia - scholar and historian
 * Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy - nobleman and traveller
 * Georg Andreas von Rosen - general
 * Ferdinand von Tiesenhausen - nobleman and soldier
 * Alexander Varnek - portrait artist
 * Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov - general

Deaths

 * Elizabeth Antonovna of Brunswick - member of the Russian royal family
 * Vasily Dolgorukov-Krymsky - general and Governor-General of Moscow
 * Vasily Neyolov - architect