Events from the year 1701 in Russia
Incumbents Monarch – Peter I
Events Battle of Petschora Battle of Rauge The settlement that became Novozybkov was established in 1701 under the name Zybkaia, within the territory administered by the Starodub Cossack regiment. February: Peter met with Augustus II the Strong of Saxony in Biržai (modern-day Lithuania) and signed a treaty agreeing to continue the war against Sweden and coordinate their attacks. On 29 December 1701 (Old Style; 9 January 1702 New Style), the Battle of Erastfer was fought. in which Russian troops led by Field Marshal Boris Sheremetev routed a numerically inferior Swedish detachment. Peter I founded a navigation and mathematics school in Moscow to train future naval and military officers. In 1701, Peter I transferred administration of monastic landholdings and revenues to a new state body, the Monastyrskii Prikaz.
Births
Andrey Matveyev – painter
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