Events from the year 1727 in Russia
Incumbents Monarch – Catherine I (until May 17), Peter II (from May 17)
Events
Peter II took a bold step by stripping Menshikov of his titles and exiling him to Siberia and made an important shift in court politics. The Treaty of Kyakhta was signed between Russia and China.
Births
Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov A Russian statesman, patron of education, co-founder of Moscow University and founder and the first president of the Academy of Fine Arts
Deaths
14 June – Cornelius Cruys, Vice Admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy (b. 1655). 17 October - Prince Boris Kurakin, Russian diplomat. Fyodor Luzhin, Russian geodesist and cartgrapher.
Full date missing Catherine I, monarch (born 1684)
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