1782 in Russia
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Events from the year 1782 in Russia
Incumbents
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- Bronze Horseman, sculpture of Peter the Great, unveiled in St. Petersburg
- The Minor (Fonvizin play) first performed
- Order of Saint Vladimir established
- Siberia Governorate, Orenburg Governorate, and others dissolved as part of a general administrative reorganization
Births
[edit ]- Stepan Andreyevskiy - general
- Constantine IV, Prince of Mukhrani - Georgian nobleman, Russian general
- Philaret Drozdov - Russian Orthodox Metropolitan of Moscow
- Yevgeny Golovin - general
- Afanasy Grigoriev - architect
- Pyotr Kotlyarevsky - hero of the Russo-Turkish War and Russo-Persian War
- Vasili Krasovsky - writer
- Orest Kiprensky - portrait artist
- Yakov Kolokolnikov-Voronin - artist
- Valerian Madatov - Armenian prince, Russian general
- Pavel Martynov - general
- Ivan Paskevich - general
- Konstantin Poltoratsky - general
- Sophie Swetchine - mystic
- Prince Teimuraz of Georgia - scholar and historian
- Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy - nobleman and traveller
- Georg Andreas von Rosen - general
- Ferdinand von Tiesenhausen - nobleman and soldier
- Alexander Varnek - portrait artist
- Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov - general
Deaths
[edit ]- Elizabeth Antonovna of Brunswick - member of the Russian royal family
- Vasily Dolgorukov-Krymsky - general and Governor-General of Moscow
- Vasily Neyolov - architect
References
[edit ]Media related to 1782 in the Russian Empire at Wikimedia Commons
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