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. 1883. Death of Turgenev. 1886. Death of Ostrovsky. 1887. Death of Nadson. 1889. Death of Saltykov. 1900. Death of Soloviev. Production of Chekhov's _Chaika_ (Seagull). 1904. Production of Chekhov's _Cherry Orchard_. Death of Chekhov. 1910. Death of Tolstoy. INDEX Acton, Lord, 146 Ainsworth, Harrison, 82 Aksakov, Ivan, 154 ----, Serge, 154 f. Alexander I, 9, 30 f., 44, 124, 169 ---- II, 52, 153, 160, 179, 227 Alexis, Tsar, 23 Andreev, Leonid, 248 _Anna Karenina_, Tolstoy's, 205 f. Apukhtin, 238 Arnold, Matthew, 123, 146, 226 Atheism and Socialism, 150 f. Bakunin, 179, 180 Balfour, Mr. A. J., 182 Balmont, 242 Bariatinsky, Prince, 101 Batyushkov, 58 Baudelaire, 226 Beaconsfield, Lord, 146 Belinsky, 142, 150 _Bell, The_, Herzen edits, 151, 153, 180 Bloch, Alexander, 242 _Bogoiskateli_, 198, 199 Brontë, Charlotte, 222 ----, Emily, 46 Brückner, Prof., 144, 145, 147, 214 Brusov, 242 Bulgaria, 12 Bulgaria, liberation of, 170, 171 Bürger's _Leonore_ translated into Russian, 52 Burns, Robert, 125 Byron, 61 f., 66, 67, 71, 72 (footnotes), 73, 98, 119, 123, 146 Byzantium, Emperor of, 11 Catherine I, 18 (footnote) ---- II, 27, 32, 33, 80, 155 Chaadaev, 148 Chekhov, 243, 244 f. Chernyshevsky, 180, 181, 227 Chesterton, Mr. G. K., 182 Christianity of the East, 11 _Chronicle of Kiev_, the, 15 f. _Chronicle of Nestor_, the, 15 f. Church, the, influence on Russian literature, 11, 21 Constantine, 44 Corot, 226 Crabbe, Nekrasov and, 229 f. Crimean War, the, 160, 202, 238 Danilevsky, 180 Daudet, 172 "Decembrist" rising, the, 44, 45, 61, 92 Delvig, Baron, 101