Events from the year 1787 in Russia
Incumbents Monarch – Catherine II
Events Black Sea Cossack Host formed Crimean journey of Catherine the Great Russo-Turkish War (1787–92) begins Battle of Kinburn (1787) Lomonosov Bridge completed in Saint Petersburg
Births Alexander Alyabyev – composer Grigol Bagration of Mukhrani – Georgian nobleman, Russian officer Konstantin Batyushkov – poet, essayist, and translator Jean Armand de Lestocq – French doctor, adventurer, and courtier Alexander Ivanovich Dmitriev-Mamonov – general and painter of battle scenes Nikolay Gretsch – writer, grammarian, and journalist Semyon Korsakov – homeopath and inventor Michael Lunin – political philosopher, revolutionary Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov – nobleman, general, government official Ivan Nabokov – general Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov – general, diplomat, and statesman Antony Pogorelsky – writer Alexandr Mikhailovich Potemkin – nobleman and soldier, patron of the Holy Mountains Lavra monastery Nymphodora Semenova – opera singer Aleksei Sokolov – priest who lived in Russian Alaska Pavel Svinyin – writer, painter, editor Aleksandr Vitberg – architect Otto von Kotzebue – navy captain, explorer Maksim Vorobyov – landscape painter Yekaterina Yezhova – actress and socialite
Deaths Alexei Antonovich of Brunswick – member of the royal family Alexei Turchaninov – businessman
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