1786 in Russia explained

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