1782 in Russia

Events from the year 1782 in Russia

• Monarch – Catherine II

• Bronze Horseman, sculpture of Peter the Great, unveiled in St. Petersburg
• The Minor (Fonvizin play) first performed
• Order of Saint Vladimir established
• Siberia Governorate, Orenburg Governorate, and others dissolved as part of a general administrative reorganization

• Stepan Andreyevskiy - general
• Constantine IV, Prince of Mukhrani - Georgian nobleman, Russian general
• Philaret Drozdov - Russian Orthodox Metropolitan of Moscow
• Yevgeny Golovin - general
• Afanasy Grigoriev - architect
• Pyotr Kotlyarevsky - hero of the Russo-Turkish War and Russo-Persian War
• Vasili Krasovsky - writer
• Orest Kiprensky - portrait artist
• Yakov Kolokolnikov-Voronin - artist
• Valerian Madatov - Armenian prince, Russian general
• Pavel Martynov - general
• Ivan Paskevich - general
• Konstantin Poltoratsky - general
• Sophie Swetchine - mystic
• Prince Teimuraz of Georgia - scholar and historian
• Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy - nobleman and traveller
• Georg Andreas von Rosen - general
• Ferdinand von Tiesenhausen - nobleman and soldier
• Alexander Varnek - portrait artist
• Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov - general

• Elizabeth Antonovna of Brunswick - member of the Russian royal family
• Vasily Dolgorukov-Krymsky - general and Governor-General of Moscow
• Vasily Neyolov - architect

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