1791 in Russia

Events from the year 1791 in Russia

Years in Russia:	1788 1789 1790 1791 1792 1793 1794
Centuries:	17th century · 18th century · 19th century
Decades:	1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s
Years:	1788 1789 1790 1791 1792 1793 1794

Incumbents

• Monarch – Catherine II

Events

• Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792) continues
  • July 10: Battle of Măcin
  • August 11: Battle of Cape Kaliakra

• Kakhovka founded
• Pale of Settlement established
• Zoological Museum of Moscow University founded

Births

• Vladimir Fyodorovich Adlerberg, general
• Sergey Aksakov, writer
• Nikolay Bestuzhev, navy officer, writer, inventor, painter, Decembrist
• Kapiton Pavlov, portrait painter
• Yekaterina Saltykov, courtier
• Pyotr Sokolov (portraitist), portrait painter
• Alexandru Sturdza, diplomat and writer

Deaths

• Prince Alexander of Kartli (1726–1791), Georgian prince
• Yakov Knyazhnin, writer
• Grigory Potemkin (born 1739)
• Potap Kuzmich Zaikov, navigator in Russian America