1758 in Russia

Events from 1758 in Russia

Incumbents

• Monarch – Elizabeth

Events

• January 22 – Seven Years' War – 34,000 Russian soldiers capture Königsberg in East Prussia (modern-day Kaliningrad).
• February 14 – Vice Chancellor Aleksey Bestuzhev-Ryumin was removed from office.
• August 25 – Seven Years' War – Wilhelm Fermor's troops are defeated by Frederick near the Oder during the Battle of Zorndorf.
• Seven Years' War – Russia made a failed attempt to take Kolberg in Pomerania (modern-day Kołobrzeg, Poland).

Births

• Euphrosinia Kolyupanovskaya, courtier (d. 1855)
• Ekaterina Orlova (courtier), courtier (d. 1781)

Deaths

• July 14 - Abrahaam Kaauw (Boerhaave), Russian medic, personal physician of the Empress (b.1715)

• August 17 – Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin, Russian soldier (b. 1702)
• September 5 – Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov, Russian chemist (b. c. 1720)

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