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1701 in Russia
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1701
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Events from the year 1701 in Russia
Incumbents
Monarch – Peter Ihttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-the-Great Peter I Encyclopædia Britannica 3 March 2026
Events
Battle of Petschora
Battle of Rauge
The settlement that became Novozybkov was established in 1701 under the name Zybkaia, within the territory administered by the Starodub Cossack regiment.Novozybkov https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CN%5CO%5CNovozybkov.htm 2026-06-20 www.encyclopediaofukraine.com
February: Peter met with Augustus II the Strong of Saxony in Biržai (modern-day Lithuania) and signed a treaty agreeing to continue the war against Sweden and coordinate their attacks.Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia - Lewitter, Chapter 7 Part 1 https://www.sgecr.co.uk/lewitter/chapter7part1.html 2026-06-10 www.sgecr.co.uk
On 29 December 1701 (Old Style; 9 January 1702 New Style), the Battle of Erastfer was fought.Battle of Erastfer, 29 December 1701 OS/ 9 January 1702 NS https://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_erastfer.html 2026-06-20 www.historyofwar.org in which Russian troops led by Field Marshal Boris Sheremetev routed a numerically inferior Swedish detachment.Chen Jimmy 2026-01-05 The Great Northern War and the Rise of the Russian Empire https://www.thecollector.com/great-northern-war-rise-russia/ 2026-06-20 TheCollector en
Peter I founded a navigation and mathematics school in Moscow to train future naval and military officers.Peter the First http://rusnavy.com/history/pjotr.htm?print=Y https://web.archive.org/web/20260311005013/http://rusnavy.com/history/pjotr.htm?print=Y 2026-03-11 2026-06-20 rusnavy.com
In 1701, Peter I transferred administration of monastic landholdings and revenues to a new state body, the Monastyrskii Prikaz.Peter the Great - Domestic Reforms - History Learning Site https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/peter-the-great/peter-the-great-domestic-reforms/ https://web.archive.org/web/20160101152529/https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/peter-the-great/peter-the-great-domestic-reforms/ 2016-01-01 2026-06-20 History Learning Site en-GB
Births
October 2015
Andrey Matveyev – painterArtist Andrey Matveev Matveevich https://petroart.ru/en/art/m/matveev/main.php 2026-05-29 petroart.ru
Deaths
October 2015
References
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