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CHRONOLOGY

DATE

AUTHOR'S LIFE

LITERARY CONTEXT

1821

Born in Moscow.

1823-31

Pushkin: Evgeny Onegin.

1825

1830

Stendhaclass="underline" Le Rouge et le Noir.

1831

Hugo: Notre Dame de Paris.

1833-7

At school in Moscow.

1834

Family purchases estate of Darovoe.

Pushkin: The Queen of Spades. Sand: Jacques.

1835

Balzac: Le Pere Goriot.

1836

Gogoclass="underline" The Government Inspector. Chaadaev: Philosophical Letters. Pushkin founds The Contemporary.

1837

Death of mother.

Enters St. Petersburg Academy of Military Engineering.

Dickens: Pickwick Papers. Death of Pushkin in duel.

1839

Death of father, assumed murdered by serfs.

Notes of the Fatherland founded by Andrey Kraevsky. Stendhaclass="underline" La Chartreuse de Parme.

1840

Lermontov: A Hero of Our Time.

1841

Death of Lermontov in duel.

1842

Gogoclass="underline" Dead Souls, Part 1, and

The Overcoat.

Sue: Les Mysteres de Paris (to

1843).

1844

Graduates, but resigns commission in order to pursue literary career.

Sue: Le Juif errant (to 1845).

1845

Completes Poor Folk - acclaimed by the critic Belinsky.

1846

Publication of Poor Folk and The Double.

Sand: La Mare au diable.

1847

Breaks with Belinsky. Joins Petrashevsky circle. "The Landlady," "A Novel in Nine Letters," "A Petersburg Chronicle".

Herzen: Who Is to Blame?

Herzen leaves Russia.

Goncharov: An Ordinary Story.

Thackeray: Vanity Fair

(to 1848).

Belinsky: Letter to Gogol.

1848

"A Faint Heart" and "White Nights."

Death of Belinsky.

NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND

DATE

AUTHOR'S LIFE

LITERARY CONTEXT

1849

Netochka Nezvanova. Arrested and imprisoned in Peter and Paul Fortress. Mock execution. Sentenced to hard labor and Siberian exile.

Dickens: David Copperfield (to 1850).

1850

Arrives at Omsk penal colony.

Turgenev: A Month in the Country. Herzen: From the Other Shore.

1851

1852

Tolstoy: Childhood. Turgenev: A Sportsman's Notebook. Death of Gogol.

1853-6

1854

Posted to Semipalatinsk.

1855

1856

Turgenev: Rudin. Aksakov: A Family Chronicle. Nekrasov: Poems.

1857

Marries Maria Dmitrievna Isaeva.

Flaubert: Madame Bovary. Baudelaire: Les Fleurs du mal.

1859

The Friend of the Family. Returns to St. Petersburg.

Turgenev: A Nest of Gentlefolk. Goncharov: Oblomov. Tolstoy: Family Happiness. Ostrovsky: The Storm. Darwin: The Origin of Species.

1860

Starts publication of House of the Dead.