1783 in Russia

Events from the year 1783 in Russia

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Catherine II

Events

 * Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Empire
 * Black Sea Fleet founded
 * Bolshoi Theatre, Saint Petersburg first built
 * Church of St. Catherine (Saint Petersburg) completed
 * Kuban Nogai Uprising
 * Malo-Kalinkin Bridge (St. Petersburg) built
 * Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra founded
 * Russian Academy founded
 * Sevastopol Naval Base completed
 * Treaty of Georgievsk - Georgian kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti becomes a Russian protectorate
 * Vladimir Central Prison founded

Births

 * Catherine Bagration - princess known for eccentric life abroad
 * Andrej Dudrovich - philosopher, president of Kharkov University
 * Nadezhda Durova - soldier
 * Alexander Ivanovich Galich - philosopher and writer
 * Paisi Kaysarov - general
 * Pyotr Kozlovsky - diplomat and writer
 * Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron - French emigre, general
 * Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia - daughter of Paul I of Russia
 * Alexander Sablukov - general, inventor
 * Fyodor Shubin - soldier, founder of Nur-Sultan
 * Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy - artist
 * Friedrich Caspar von Geismar - Austrian-German who became Russian general
 * Friedrich von Rüdiger - general
 * Vasily Zhukovsky - poet, imperial tutor

Deaths

 * Alexander Ablesimov - writer
 * Alexander Mikhailovich Golitsyn - general and statesman
 * Gerhard Friedrich Müller - ethnographer and historian
 * Grigory Orlov - favorite of Catherine the Great
 * Nikita Ivanovich Panin - advisor to Catherine the Great
 * Tikhon of Zadonsk - bishop, writer, saint