1787 in Russia
Events from the year 1787 in Russia
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A night illumination in honor of Catherine the Great on the Dnieper River
Incumbents
Events
Births
- Alexander Alyabyev - composer
- Grigol Bagration of Mukhrani - Georgian nobleman, Russian officer
- Konstantin Batyushkov - poet, essayist, and translator
- Jean Armand de Lestocq - French doctor, adventurer, and courtier
- Alexander Ivanovich Dmitriev-Mamonov - general and painter of battle scenes
- Nikolay Gretsch - writer, grammarian, and journalist
- Semyon Korsakov - homeopath and inventor
- Michael Lunin - political philosopher, revolutionary
- Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov - nobleman, general, government official
- Ivan Nabokov - general
- Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov - general, diplomat, and statesman
- Antony Pogorelsky - writer
- Alexandr Mikhailovich Potemkin - nobleman and soldier, patron of the Holy Mountains Lavra monastery
- Nymphodora Semenova - opera singer
- Aleksei Sokolov - priest who lived in Russian Alaska
- Pavel Svinyin - writer, painter, editor
- Aleksandr Vitberg - architect
- Otto von Kotzebue - navy captain, explorer
- Maksim Vorobyov - landscape painter
- Yekaterina Yezhova - actress and socialite
Deaths
- Alexei Antonovich of Brunswick - member of the royal family
- Alexei Turchaninov - businessman
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