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1791 in Russia
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in Russia
Events from the year 1791 in Russia
Incumbents
Monarch – Catherine IIhttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Catherine-the-Great Catherine the Great Encyclopædia Britannica 1 August 2026
Events
Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792) continues
July 10: Battle of Măcin
August 11: Battle of Cape Kaliakra
Kakhovka founded
Pale of Settlement established
Zoological Museum of Moscow University founded
Births
Vladimir Fyodorovich Adlerberg, general
Sergey Aksakov, writer
Nikolay Bestuzhev, navy officer, writer, inventor, painter, Decembrist
Kapiton Pavlov, portrait painter
Yekaterina Saltykov, courtier
Pyotr Sokolov (portraitist), portrait painter
Alexandru Sturdza, diplomat and writer
Deaths
Prince Alexander of Kartli (1726–1791), Georgian prince
Yakov Knyazhnin, writer
Grigory Potemkin (born 1739)
Potap Kuzmich Zaikov, navigator in Russian America
References
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