Events from the year 1782 in Russia
Incumbents Monarch – Catherine II
Events
Bronze Horseman, sculpture of Peter the Great, unveiled in St. Petersburg Greek Church and Greek School (Taganrog) - church consecrated 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 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 Elizabeth Antonovna of Brunswick - member of the Russian royal family Vasily Dolgorukov-Krymsky - general and Governor-General of Moscow Vasily Neyolov - architect
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