1771 in Russia

Events from the year 1771 in Russia

Incumbents

• Monarch – Catherine II

Events

• Moscow plague riot of 1771
• Pyatnitskoye cemetery

Births

• - Count Mikhail Miloradovich, Russian general of Serbian origin, prominent during the Napoleonic Wars. (d. 1825)

Deaths

• 29 April - Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Italian architect who worked mainly in Russia. (b. 1700)

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