1787 in Russia

Events from the year 1787 in Russia

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Catherine II

Events

 * Black Sea Cossack Host formed
 * Crimean journey of Catherine the Great
 * Russo-Turkish War (1787–92) begins
 * Battle of Kinburn (1787)
 * Lomonosov Bridge completed in Saint Petersburg

Births

 * Alexander Alyabyev – composer
 * Grigol Bagration of Mukhrani – Georgian nobleman, Russian officer
 * Konstantin Batyushkov – poet, essayist, and translator
 * Jean Armand de Lestocq – French doctor, adventurer, and courtier
 * Alexander Ivanovich Dmitriev-Mamonov – general and painter of battle scenes
 * Nikolay Gretsch – writer, grammarian, and journalist
 * Semyon Korsakov – homeopath and inventor
 * Michael Lunin – political philosopher, revolutionary
 * Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov – nobleman, general, government official
 * Ivan Nabokov – general
 * Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov – general, diplomat, and statesman
 * Antony Pogorelsky – writer
 * Alexandr Mikhailovich Potemkin – nobleman and soldier, patron of the Holy Mountains Lavra monastery
 * Nymphodora Semenova – opera singer
 * Aleksei Sokolov – priest who lived in Russian Alaska
 * Pavel Svinyin – writer, painter, editor
 * Aleksandr Vitberg – architect
 * Otto von Kotzebue – navy captain, explorer
 * Maksim Vorobyov – landscape painter
 * Yekaterina Yezhova – actress and socialite

Deaths

 * Alexei Antonovich of Brunswick – member of the royal family
 * Alexei Turchaninov – businessman