1742 in Russia

Events from the year 1742 in Russia

• Monarch – Elizabeth ^{[1] [2] [3]}

• The Lopukhina Conspiracy arises at the Russian court.^{[4] [5]}
• Peter III of Russia is brought to Russia from Germany by his aunt, Elizabeth I, to be received by the Russian Orthodox Church and declared heir to the Russian throne.^{[6] [7] [8]}
• Christian Goldbach becomes a staff member of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs^[9] and proposes what will become known as Goldbach's conjecture in a letter to Leonhard Euler.^{[9] [10] [11]}
• Elizabeth I reconfirms a Ukase issued by Peter the Great and expels Jews from the Russian Empire.^{[12] [13]}

• Yemelyan Pugachev was an ataman of the Yaik Cossacks who led a great popular insurrection during the reign of Catherine the Great. (d. 1775)^{[14] [15] [16]}

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