This is a list of notable events from the year 1777 in
Russia.
Incumbents
*
Monarch –
Catherine II
Events
*
Pavlovsk was founded.
* Rybnaya ''sloboda'' was renamed
Rybinsk.
*
Stavropol was founded.
*
Russo-Prussian Alliance
The Russo-Prussian alliance signed by the Kingdom of Prussia and the Russian Empire on 11 April 1764. It was pivotal to the people of Prussia and Russia, and it followed the end of the Seven Years' War. The alliance agreement expanded on the Tr ...
was extended.
* Beloozero was renamed
Belozersk.
Births
*
Alexander I of Russia, Emperor of Russia
*
Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, a Russian monk
*
Alexander Bashilov, a Russian general
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Peter Petrovich Dolgorukov, Russian officer
*
Anna Lopukhina
Princess Anna Petrovna Lopukhina (russian: Анна Петровна Лопухина) (8 November 1777 – 25 April 1805) was a royal mistress to Emperor Paul of Russia. In 1798, she replaced Catherine Nelidova as the chief mistress.
Family
...
, Russian imperial mistress
*
Karl Wilhelm von Toll
Count Karl Wilhelm von Toll (russian: Карл Фёдорович Толль ; 9 April 1777, Keskvere, Governorate of Estonia – 5 May 1842) was a Baltic German aristocrat and Russian subject who served in the Imperial Russian Army in the ca ...
, Russian military leader
Deaths
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Alexander Sumarokov, Russian poet
References
{{Years in Russia
1777 by country
Years of the 18th century in the Russian Empire
1777 in the Russian Empire