1776 in Russia

none Events from the year 1776 in the Russian Empire Incumbents Monarch – Catherine the Great Events 22 July – Empress Catherine the Great issues a revised Instruction (Nakaz), refining Enlightenment-inspired proposals for Russia’s legal code.De Madariaga, Isabel. Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great (Yale University Press, 1981). August – Establishment of the Novgorod Viceroyalty, subdivided into Novgorod and Olonets oblasts, as part of Catherine’s administrative reforms.Lyubskii, V.M. Administrative Reforms in Russia, 18th Century (Nauka, 1977). November – Russian troops intervene in the Crimean Khanate, enforcing Catherine’s decision to install Şahin Giray as khan.Fisher, Alan W. The Russian Annexation of the Crimea, 1772–1783 (Cambridge University Press, 1970). Expansion of the Russian Assignation Bank network, with a new branch established in Tobolsk to extend circulation of paper rubles.Kahan, Arcadius. The Plow, the Hammer, and the Knout: An Economic History of Eighteenth-Century Russia (University of Chicago Press, 1985). Further implementation of Catherine’s vice-regal reforms, aimed at centralising governance across the empire.Raeff, Marc. "The Well-Ordered Police State." Russian History, Vol. 10, No. 2 (1983), pp. 99–117. Russia maintains formal neutrality in the American Revolutionary War, rejecting British requests for troops.Hosking, Geoffrey. Russia: People and Empire, 1552–1917 (Harvard University Press, 1997). Births No verifiable records of culturally significant births directly tied to Russia in 1776. Deaths 15 March – Natalia Alexeievna of Russia (1755–1776), first wife of the future Emperor Paul I.Rounding, Virginia. Catherine the Great: Love, Sex and Power (St. Martin's Press, 2006). Anna Vorontsova (date uncertain), member of the prominent Vorontsov noble family.Hughes, Lindsey. Russia in the Age of Peter the Great (Yale University Press, 1998). References External links in Russia 1776 1776 Category:Years of the 18th century in the Russian Empire Category:1776 by country