Events from the year 1754 in Russia
Incumbents Monarch – Elizabeth
Events
Construction of Anichkov Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia Construction of Transfiguration Cathedral (Saint Petersburg) Construction of the city Oleksandriia in Kirovohrad Oblast Founding of the town Nizhnyaya Tura in the Sverdlovsk Oblast Decree abolishing internal customs (Elizabeth Romanova, decree ending in 1762)
Births
Unknown date – Alexandra Branitskaya, political activist, courtier and businessperson (d. 1838) 16 June – Salawat Yulayev, Bashkir poet and leader of Pugachev Rebellion against the Russian empire 29 June – Ivan Nikolajevich Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian courtier and lover of Catherine the Great October 1 (20 September O.S.) – Paul I of Russia (also known as Pavel Petrovich), Tsar of Russia until his death in 1801
Deaths
Unknown date – Maria Cantemir, Romanian noblewoman, Princess of Moldova, mistress of Peter the Great (who was the Emperor of Russia) aged 53–54 (b. 1700) 6 August – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, physicist. (b. 1711)
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