versity of Moscow founded.
1762. Accession of Catherine the Great.
1765. Death of Lomonosov.
1790. Radishchev's _Journey Through Russia_ published.
1796. Death of Catherine the Great.
1800. First edition of _The Story of the Raid of Prince Igor_
published.
1802. Zhukovsky translates Gray's _Elegy_.
Death of Radishchev.
1806. Krylov's first fables published.
1816. Death of Derzhavin.
_History of the Russian State_, by Karamzin, published.
1819. University of St. Petersburg founded.
1820. Pushkin's _Ruslan and Ludmila_ published.
1823. Griboyedov's _Misfortune of Being Clever_ circulated.
First Canto of _Eugene Onegin_ published.
1825. The Decembrist Attempt.
1826. Rileev hanged.
Death of Karamzin.
1827. Pushkin's _Gypsies_ published.
1829. Death of Griboyedov.
Pushkin's _Poltava_ published.
1831. Pushkin's _Boris Godunov_ published.
Complete version of _Eugene Onegin_ published.
1832. Gogol's _Evening on the Farm near the Dikanka_ published.
1834. Gogol's _Mirgorod_ published.
1835. Gogol's _Revisor_ produced on the stage.
1836. Chaadaev's letters published.
1837. Death of Pushkin.
1841. Death of Lermontov.
1842. Death of Koltsov.
Gogol's _Dead Souls_ published.
1844. Death of Krylov.
1847. Gogol's correspondence published.
Turgenev's _Sportsman's Sketches_ published.
Death of Belinsky.
1849. Dostoyevsky imprisoned.
1856-7. Saltykov's _Government Sketches_ appear.
1859. Ostrovsky's _Storm_ produced.
Goncharov's _Oblomov_ published.
1860. Turgenev's _Fathers and Sons_ published.
1861. Emancipation of the Serfs.
1862. Pisemsky's _Troubled Sea_ published.
1863. Chernyshevsky's _What is to be Done?_ published.
1865. Leskov's _No Way Out_ published.
1865-1872. Tolstoy's _War and Peace_ appeared.
1866. Dostoyevsky's _Crime and Punishment_ published.
1868. Dostoyevsky's _Idiot_ published.
1875. Death of Count Alexis Tolstoy.
1875-6. Tolstoy's _Anna Karenina_ published.
1877. Death of Nekrasov.
1881. Death of Dostoyevsky.
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