Events from the year 1742 in Russia
Incumbents Monarch – Elizabeth
Events
The Lopukhina Conspiracy arises at the Russian court.Лопухина Наталья Федоровна - biografija.ruNisbet Bain (1854–1909), Russia under Anna and Elizabeth, public domain. Peter III of Russia is brought to Russia from Germany by his aunt, Elizabeth I, to be received by the Russian Orthodox Church and declared heir to the Russian throne. Christian Goldbach becomes a staff member of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and proposes what will become known as Goldbach's conjecture in a letter to Leonhard Euler. Elizabeth I reconfirms a Ukase issued by Peter the Great and expels Jews from the Russian Empire.
Births
Yemelyan Pugachev was an ataman of the Yaik Cossacks who led a great popular insurrection during the reign of Catherine the Great. (d. 1775)
Deaths
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