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.