1791 in Russia

Events from the year 1791 in Russia

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Catherine II

Events

 * Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792) continues
 * July 10: Battle of Măcin
 * August 11: Battle of Cape Kaliakra


 * Kakhovka founded
 * Pale of Settlement established
 * Zoological Museum of Moscow University founded

Births

 * Vladimir Fyodorovich Adlerberg, general
 * Sergey Aksakov, writer
 * Nikolay Bestuzhev, navy officer, writer, inventor, painter, Decembrist
 * Kapiton Pavlov, portrait painter
 * Yekaterina Saltykov, courtier
 * Pyotr Sokolov (portraitist), portrait painter
 * Alexandru Sturdza, diplomat and writer

Deaths

 * Prince Alexander of Kartli (1726–1791), Georgian prince
 * Yakov Knyazhnin, writer
 * Grigory Potemkin (born 1739)
 * Potap Kuzmich Zaikov, navigator in Russian America