1786 in Russia

Events from the year 1786 in Russia

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Catherine II

Events

 * Court Riding Arena in Saint Petersburg begins construction
 * Creaking Pagoda completed in Tsarskoye Selo
 * Don Host Oblast established
 * Fevey - premier of opera by Vasily Pashkevich with libretto by Catherine the Great
 * Pashkov House completed in Moscow
 * St. Catherine's Cathedral completed in Kherson
 * Vodootvodny Canal completed

Births

 * Dmitry Begichev, civil servant, writer, senator
 * Alexander Chavchavadze, Georgian poet and nobleman, Russian general
 * Auguste de Montferrand, French architect who worked principally in Russia
 * Roksandra Skarlatovna Edling, courtier (d. 1844)
 * Fyodor Glinka, poet and author
 * Gavriil Ignatyev, general
 * Maria Nesselrode, courtier (d. 1803)
 * Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1786–1859), daughter of Paul I of Russia
 * Pavel Schilling, diplomat and inventor
 * Ekaterina Semenova, actress
 * Roxandra Sturdza, philanthropist and writer
 * Sergey Uvarov, scholar and civil servant influential in education
 * Filipp Vigel, nobleman, civil servant, memoirist
 * Otto Magnus von Stackelberg, archaeologist and artist
 * Karl Gustav von Strandmann, general

Deaths

 * Jovan Horvat, general and founder of New Serbia
 * Thomas MacKenzie (Russian admiral), admiral and founder of Sevastopol
 * Julia von Mengden, lady-in-waiting and confidant of Grand Dutchess Anna Leopoldovna