1785 in Russia

Events from the year 1785 in Russia

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Catherine II

Events

 * Babolovo Palace completed
 * Battle of the Sunja - Russian defeat in Chechen uprising led by Sheikh Mansur
 * Billings Expedition authorized to search for the Northeast Passage
 * Caucasus Viceroyalty (1785–96) established
 * Charter to the Gentry codified rights of nobility
 * City Dumas established in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and other cities by imperial decree
 * Great Gostiny Dvor shopping arcade opened in Saint Petersburg
 * Hermitage Theatre opened
 * Odigitrievsky Cathedral completed
 * Trinity Church, Pervitino founded

Births

 * Stepan Nikitich Begichev - soldier and memoirist
 * Dmitry Bludov - government official and writer
 * Nikolai Islenev - general
 * Stepan Khilkov - general
 * Dorothea Lieven - noblewoman, socialite
 * Elena Aleksandrovna Naryshkina - noblewoman
 * Lev Naryshkin - general
 * Anna Orlova-Chesmenskaya - noblewoman, philanthropist
 * Konstantin von Benckendorff - diplomat and general
 * Hans Karl von Diebitsch - general

Deaths

 * Praskovya Bruce - lady-in-waiting and confidant of Catherine the Great
 * Ivan Firsov - painter
 * Ivan Grigorovich-Barsky - architect