Events from the year 1759 in Russia
Incumbents Monarch – Elizabeth
Events Page Corps military academy founded in Saint Petersburg May 10 – The Macedonian Hussar Regiment is formed and starts to assist the Russian Empire in the Seven Years' War. August 12 – Battle of Kunersdorf: Frederick the Great is rebuffed in bloody assaults, by the combined Austro–Russian army of Pyotr Saltykov and Ernst von Laudon. This is one of Frederick's greatest defeats.
Births Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg, empress of Paul I of Russia (d. 1828)
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