1841 Death of M. lu. Lermontov
1842 N. V. Gogol's Dead Souls and The Overcoat 1843-59 ?. ?. Pavlova's Quadrille
1846 D. V. Grigorovich's The Village
F. M. Dostoevskii's Poor Folk and The Double
1847 D. V. Grigorovich's Anton Goremyka
N. V. Gogol's Selected Passages from Correspondence with
Friends
V. G. Belinskii's Letter to Gogol circulated
I. A. Goncharov's A Common Story
1848 ?. ?. Pavlova's A Double Life Death of V. G. Belinskii (1811-48) F. M. Dostoevskii's "White Nights"
1849 I. A. Goncharov's "Oblomov's Dream"
1852 Death of N. V. Gogol (1809-52)
L. N. Tolstoi's Childhood I. S. Turgenev's A Sportsman's Sketches
1853-56 Crimean War (between Russia and the combined forces of Britain, France, and Piedmont)
1854 L. N. Tolstoi's Adolescence 1855-81 Reign of Alexander II
J855-57 I- A. Goncharov's The Frigate Pallada
1855 N. G. Chernyshevskii's treatise on The Aesthetic Relations of Art to Reality
1856 S. T. Aksakov's A Family Chronicle and Recollections I. S. Turgenev's Rudin
1857 L. N. Tolstoi's Youth
1858 S. T. Aksakov's Childhood Years of Grandson Bagrov A. F. Pisemskii's A Thousand Souls
1859 LA. Goncharov's Oblomov
I. S. Turgenev's A Nest of Gentlefolk
Death of S. T. Aksakov (1791-1859)
Death of F. V. Bulgarin (1789-1859)
L. N. Tolstoi's Family Happiness
N. A. Dobroliubov's essay "What is Oblomovitis?"
1860 I. S. Turgenev's First Love
I. S. Turgenev's On the Eve
1861 The Emancipation of the Serfs, followed by a series of reforms in the early 1860s
Death of N. A. Dobroliubov (1836-61)
F. M. Dostoevskii's The Insulted and Injured
A. F. Pisemskii's An Old Man's Sin
1862 I. S. Turgenev's Fathers and Children
1863 N. G. Chernyshevskii's What is to be Done? L. N. Tolstoi's The Cossacks
F. M. Dostoevskii's Winter Notes on Summer Impressions A. F. Pisemskii's The Troubled Sea
1864 V. P. Kliushnikov's Mirage
F. M. Dostoevskii's Notes from Underground N. S. Leskov's No Way Out
1865-69 L. N. Tolstoi's War and Peace
1866 F. M. Dostoevskii's Crime and Punishment
1867 I. S. Turgenev's Smoke
1868 F. M. Dostoevskii's The Idiot
1869-79 M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin's The History of a Town
1869 I. A. Goncharov's The Ravine
1871-72 F. M. Dostoevskii's The Devils
1872 N. S. Leskov's Cathedral Folk
1873 N. S. Leskov's "The Sealed Angel" and "The Enchanted
Wanderer"
1875-80 M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin's The Golovlev Family
1875 F. M. Dostoevskii's A Raw Youth
N. S. Leskov's "At the End of the World"
1877 L. N. Tolstoi's Anna Karenina
I. S. Turgenev's Virgin Soil
1880 F. M. Dostoevskii's The Brothers Karamazov
1881-94 Reign of Alexander III
18 81 Assassination of Alexander II
Death of F. M. Dostoevskii (1821-81) Death of A. F. Pisemskii (1821-81)
1883 Death of I. S.Turgenev (1818-83)
1887 Execution of Lenin's brother
L. N. Tolstoi's On Life
1889 Death of N. G. Chernyshevskii (1828-89)
Death of M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-89)
1891 Death of I. A. Goncharov (1812-91 )
1892 Death of V. P. Kliushnikov
1893 Death of ?. ?. Pavlova (1807-93) 1894-1917 Reign of Nicholas II
1895 Death of N. S. Leskov (1831-95)
1896 A. P. Chekhov's play The Seagull 1897-98 L. N. Tolstoi's treatise What is Art?
1897 A. P. Chekhov's "The Peasants"
1898 Foundation of the Marxist Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
1899 L. N. Tolstoi's Resurrection
A. P. Chekhov's play The Three Sisters Death of D. V. Grigorovich (1822-99)
1901 A. P. Chekhov's play Uncle Vania
1903 A. P. Chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard
Split of the RSDLP into Menshevik and Bolshevik factions (the latter led by Lenin)
1904-05 Russo-Japanese War
1904 Death of A. P. Chekhov (1860-1904)
1905 The abortive 1905 Revolution leads to establishment of the short-lived First Duma (Parliament)
1906 Maksim Gorkii's Mother
1907 F. K. Sologub's The Petty Demon
1908 A. M. Remizov's The Clock A. A. Bogdanov's Red Star Maksim Gorkii's Confession
1910 I. A. Bunin's The Village
Death of L. N. Tolstoi (1828-1910)
1911 I. A. Bunin's Sukhodol
1912 A. A. Bogdanov's Engineer Menni
1913 Maksim Gorkii's Childhood 1914-18 First World War
1915 V. V. Maiakovskii's poem "A Cloud in Trousers"
1916 Andrei Belyi's Petersburg (in book form)
1917 Nicholas II abdicates in February; he is succeeded by a Provisional Government; in October the Bolsheviks seize power
E. I. Zamiatin's "Islanders"
1918-21 Civil War and period of War Communism
1920-21 E. I. Zamiatin's We (published for the first time in Russian in 1952 and in the USSR in 1988)
1920 E. I. Zamiatin's "Mamai"
1921-22 Boris Pilniak's The Naked Year
1921-40 A. N. Tolstoi's A Tour of Hell
1922-23 A. N. Tolstoi's Aelita
1922 Andrei Belyi's Petersburg (revised, shortened edition)
1923 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) formally established
D. A. Furmanov's Chapaev
1924 Death of V. I. Lenin
K. A. Fedin's City and Years
A. S. Serafimovich's The Iron Flood
1925 Beginning of Maksim Gorkii's uncompleted novel The Life of Klim Samgin
M. A. Bulgakov's The White Guard
F. V. Gladkov's Cement
1926 Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry
Death of I. A. Furmanov (1891 -1926)
1927 Death of F. K. Sologub (1863-1927)
A. A. Fadeev's The Rout L. M. Leonov's The Thief lu. K. Olesha's Envy
1928-3 2. Stalin inaugurates the collectivization of agriculture
1928-40 M. A. Sholokhov's The Quiet Don
1928 Death of A. A. Bogdanov (1873-1928) The Twelve Chairs by I. Ilf and E. Petrov
1929 A. P. Platonov's Chevengur
M. M. Bakhtin's Problems of Dostoevskii's Creative Work
1930 Death of V. V. Maiakovskii (1893-1930) A. P. Platonov's Foundation Pit
V. V. Nabokov's The Defense