1788 in Russia

Events from the year 1788 in Russia

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Catherine II

Events

 * Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790) begins
 * Battle of Hogland
 * Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792) continues
 * Siege of Khotin (1788)
 * Siege of Ochakov (1788)
 * Naval actions at the siege of Ochakov (1788)
 * Battle of Fidonisi


 * Fruntimmersskolan i Viborg founded
 * Kremlin Senate building completed
 * Orenburg Muslim Spiritual Assembly established
 * Ulyoty town founded

Births

 * Alexander Albrecht (general), cavalry commander
 * Yekaterina Avdeyeva, writer
 * Auguste-Joseph Desarnod, French engraver and battle painter who spent most of his life in Russia
 * Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1788–1857), German aristocratic exile and Russian general
 * Maria Ikonina, ballerina. (d. 1866)
 * Pavel Kiselyov, general, statesman, and reformer
 * Sergey Stepanovich Lanskoy, Minister of the Interior 1855-1861, reformer
 * Mikhail Lazarev, explorer and admiral
 * Nikita Pankratiev, general
 * Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, fourth daughter of Paul I of Russia
 * Louis-Victor-Léon de Rochechouart, French aristocratic exile and Russian general
 * Mikhail Vielgorsky, Russian official, composer, and arts patron
 * Sergey Volkonsky, general and Decembrist
 * Karl Friedrich von Rennenkampff, Baltic German general
 * Semyon Yanovsky, Russian naval officer, the third governor of Russian America

Deaths

 * Samuel Greig, Scottish sailor who became a Russian admiral
 * Maria Rumyantseva, courtier (born 1699)
 * Pyotr Sheremetev, wealthy nobleman and courtier
 * Mikhail Volkonsky, general and statesman