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.