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| 1762
| Catherine the Great becomes Empress—will reign until 1796
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| 1792
| "Poor Liza" published
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| 1801
| Alexander I becomes Emperor upon assassination of his father, Paul I
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1812
| War with Napoleon. French invade 24 June, are driven out 14 December
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| 1825
| Nicholas I becomes Emperor upon death of his brother. Will rule until
1855.
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| 1830
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Aleksandr Pushkin, "Tales of Belkin" written. Published the following year.
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| 1833
| Nikolai Gogol finished "The Nose" but no publisher will touch the scandalous text.
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1834
| Aleksandr Pushkin, "The Queen of Spades" published
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| 1836
| Nikolai Gogol's "The Nose" is finally published by Pushkin in his journal The Contemporary
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| 1837
| Pushkin killed in a duel in St. Petersburg
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| 1839
| Mikhail Lermontov, "The Fatalist" published.
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| 1840
| Mikhail Lermontov, "Taman" published. The entire Hero of Our Time appears later this same year.
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| 1842
| Nikolai Gogol's Petersburg Tales, including "The Overcoat," is published.
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| 1852
| Gogol dies in Moscow, having burned the second volume of Dead Souls
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| 1852
| Turgenev's Sportsman's Sketches, including "Bezhin Meadow," published.
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| 1855
| Alexander II becomes Emperor upon death of his father Nicholas.
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| 1872
| Tolstoy's "Prisoner of the Caucasus" and "God Sees the Truth But Waits" are published
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| 1873
| Dostoevsky's "Bobok" is published in The Citizen
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| 1874
| Turgenev's "The Knocking" added to new editions of Sportsman's Sketches
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| 1877
| Tolstoy's spiritual crisis, which will lead to his "Confession" (written 1880 but suppressed by censorship)
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| 1881
| Nikolai Leskov, "The Steal Flea" is published.
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| 1881
| Alexander III becomes Emperor upon assassination of his father, Alexander
II
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| 1894
| Nicholas II becomes Emperor upon assassination of his father, Alexander
III
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| 1905
| Bloody Sunday, Revolution of 1905, introduction of limited constitutionalism.
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| 1910
| Tolstoy dies.
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| 1917
| Year of Revolutions. Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik Party seizes power
in Novmeber.
War Communism and Civil War
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| 1921
| NEP begins. |
| 1923–24
| Babel's Red Calvary stories published |
| 1924
| Lenin dies. Stalin quickly dominates the party and government |
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| 1925
| Nabokov's "Return of Chorb" published in Berlin |
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| 1925
| CC Resolution on literature |
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| 1926
| Bulgakov's "The Embroidered Towel" published |
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| 1928
| First Five-Year Plan begins |
| 1932
| All literary associations disbanded. Socialist Realism defined as mandatory unitary style for all Soviet literature. |
| 1934
| First Congress of Union of Soviet Writers |
| 1935
| Zamyatin's "The Lion" published in France |
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| 1936
| Kirov assassinated. The Great Terror Begins |
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| 1939
| Nazi-Soviet pact. World War II begins. |
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| 1940
| Babel arrested fof treason and executed. |
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| 1941
| Operation Barbarossa. Germany invades the USSR. The Great Patriotic War begins. |
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| 1947
| Zhdanov denounces Zoshchenko and Akhmatova. Begin of Zhdanovshchina. |
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| 1953
| Stalin dies. |
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