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.
Turgenev: On the Eve, First Love. George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss. Birth of Chekhov. Dickens: Great Expectations (to 1861).
1861
Time commences publication. The Insulted and Injured.
Herzen: My Past and Thoughts (to 1867).
1862.
Travels in Europe. Affair with Polina Suslova.
Turgenev: Fathers and Children. Hugo: Les Miserables. Chernyshevsky arrested.
1863
Further travel abroad. Time closed. Winter Notes on Summer Impressions.
Tolstoy: The Cossacks. Chernyshevsky: What Is to Be Done?
1864
Launch of Epoch. Death of wife and brother. Notes from Underground.
Nekrasov: Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia? (to 1876). Dickens: Our Mutual Friend (to 1865).
1865
Epoch closes. Severe financial difficulties.
Leskov: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.
1865-9
Tolstoy: War and Peace.
NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
DATE
AUTHOR'S LIFE
LITERARY CONTEXT
1866
Crime and Punishment. The Gambler.
The Contemporary and The Russian Word suppressed.
1867
Marries Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina. Flees abroad to escape creditors.
Turgenev: Smoke.
1868
The Idiot. Birth and death of daughter, Sonya. Visits Switzerland and Italy.
Gorky born.
1869
Birth of daughter Liubov.
Goncharov: The Precipice. Flaubert: L'Education sentimentale.
1870
The Eternal Husband.
Death of Dickens and Herzen.
1871
Returns to St. Petersburg. Birth of son, Fyodor.
Ostrovsky: The Forest.
1871-2
Demons (The Devils/ The Possessed),
1872
Summer in Staraia Russa -becomes normal summer residence. Becomes editor of The Citizen.
Leskov: Cathedral Folk. Marx's Das Kapital published in Russia. George Eliot: Middlemarch.
i873
Starts Diary of a Writer.
.874
Resigns from The Citizen. Seeks treatment for emphysema in Bad Ems.
1875
The Adolescent (A Raw Youth). Birth of son, Alexey.
Saltykov-Shchedrin: The
Golovlyovs (to 1880).
1875-8
Tolstoy: Anna Karenina.
1876
1877
Turgenev: Virgin Soil.
1878
Death of Alexey. Visits Optina monastery with Vladimir Solovyov.
1879
1879-80
The Brothers Karamazov.
Tolstoy's religious crisis, during which he writes A Confession.
1880