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1788 in Russia
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in Russia
Events from the year 1788 in Russia
Incumbents
Monarch – Catherine IIhttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Catherine-the-Great Catherine the Great Encyclopædia Britannica 1 August 2026
Events
Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790) begins
Battle of Hogland
Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792) continues
Siege of Khotin (1788)
Siege of Ochakov (1788)
Naval actions at the siege of Ochakov (1788)
Battle of Fidonisi
Fruntimmersskolan i Viborg founded
Kremlin Senate building completed
Orenburg Muslim Spiritual Assembly established
Ulyoty town founded
Births
Alexander Albrecht (general), cavalry commander
Yekaterina Avdeyeva, writer
Auguste-Joseph Desarnod, French engraver and battle painter who spent most of his life in Russia
Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1788–1857), German aristocratic exile and Russian general
Maria Ikonina, ballerina. (d. 1866)
Pavel Kiselyov, general, statesman, and reformer
Sergey Stepanovich Lanskoy, Minister of the Interior 1855–1861, reformer
Mikhail Lazarev, explorer and admiral
Nikita Pankratiev, general
Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, fourth daughter of Paul I of Russia
Louis-Victor-Léon de Rochechouart, French aristocratic exile and Russian general
Mikhail Vielgorsky, Russian official, composer, and arts patron
Sergey Volkonsky, general and Decembrist
Karl Friedrich von Rennenkampff, Baltic German general
Semyon Yanovsky, Russian naval officer, the third governor of Russian America
Deaths
Samuel Greig, Scottish sailor who became a Russian admiral
Maria Rumyantseva, courtier (born 1699)
Pyotr Sheremetev, wealthy nobleman and courtier
Mikhail Volkonsky, general and statesman
References
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