RUSSIAN EMPIRE (1825-1917) Russian Empire (1689-1825)
1825-1855	Nicholai I Romanov
	About Nicholai I [1] [2]
1825	Decembrist Uprising Griboedov's comedy Woe from Wit
1830	Briullov's painting Last Day of Pompeii Alexander Pushkin completes Eugene Onegin Mathematician Lobachevsky publishes first work
1830-1831	Polish rebellion
1832	Uvarov's three principles enunciated: autocracy, orthodoxy, nationality Alexandrine Theater in St. Petersburg opened
1833	Code of Laws
1834	Kiev University founded
1836 Nov 27	Glinka's opera Life for the Tsar (Ivan Susanin) Gogol's Inspector General Chadaaev's Philosophical Letters
1837	A. S. Pushkin shot in a dual with D'Anthes, dies January 29
1838	First Russian railroad--St. Petersburg to Tsarskoe Selo Gubernskie vedomosti first published by order of the tsar
1838-1847	Belinsky works on the Notes of the Fatherland
1840	Lermontov's Hero of Our Time
1841	Ban against the sale of peasants individually
1842	Glinka's opera Ruslan and Ludmila Gogol's Dead Souls
1846    May 30	Abolition of Corn Laws in England; increase of Russian grain exports Peter Carl Faberge born in St. Petersburg
1847	Herzen leaves Russia forever Belinsky's Letter to Gogol
1849	Dostoevsky sentenced to forced labor in Siberia Russian intervention in Hungary
1851 Nov 13	St. Petersburg-Moscow railway opened
1852	Turgenev's Sportsman's Notebook
1853	Ostrovsky's first play produced
1853-1856	Crimean War
1855	Death of Nicholai I
1855-1881	Alexander II Romanov
	About Alexander II [1] [2]
1856	George Plekhanov born
1857	First issue of Herzen's Kolokol (The Bell) Alexander Ivanov's painting Christ's Appearance to the People
1858-1860	Acquisition from China of Amur and Maritime provinces
1859	Surrender of Shamil; conquest of Caucasus completed Goncharov's Oblomov
1860	Founding of Vladivostok
1860-1873	First railway boom
1861 Feb 19	Emancipation of the serfs
1862	St. Petersburg Conservatory founded; Anton Rubinstein, director The Mighty Five (Balakierev, Cui, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky) announce intentions to create a school of true Russian music Turgenev's Fathers and Sons
1863	Polish rebellion Artists Co-operative Society (Peredvizhniki) founded Chernyshevsky's What Is To Be Done?
1863-1865	Law (courts) and education reform Zemstvo instituted
1864-1885	Conquest of central Asia
1866	Moscow Conservatory founded; Tchaikovsky becomes a professor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is published
1867 March 30	Alaska sold to the United States of America
1869	Tolstoy's War and Peace is published
1870    April 22	Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions (Peredvizhniks) Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) is born Mendeleyev's Principles of Chemistry
1872	Russian translation of Marx's Capital Carl Faberge takes over his father's jewelry business
1873	Beginning of the movement To the People (V narod)
1874	Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov
1876	Land and Freedom Party
1877	Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake
1877-1878    March 3    June 13	War with Turkey Treaty of San Stefano Congress of Berlin Begins
1878	Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto takes Paris by storm Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
1879	People's Will Party and Black Partition established
1880	Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov
1881 March 1	Assassination of Alexander II
1881-1894	Alexander III Romanov
	About Alexander III [1] [2]
1884	Reactionary regulations for universities
1888	Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade
1890	Borodin's opera Prince Igor Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty
1891	Beginning of the Trans-Siberian railway
1891-1893	Making of the Franco-Russian alliance
1892	Tret'iakov donates his art collection to the city of Moscow
1892-1903	Witte as minister of communications, finance and commerce
1894-1917	Nicholai II Romanov
	About Nicholai II [1] [2]
1896	Disastrous production of Chekhov's The Seagull in St. Petersburg
1897 Jan 28	First all-Russian census counts 128,907,692 people
1898	Moscow Art Theater founded, produces Chekhov's Sea Gull 1st Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Party (Minsk) Occupation of Port Arthur
1900	Boxer Rebellion; Russia occupies Manchuria
1901 Jan 31	Chekhov's Three Sisters opens at MKhAT to poor reviews
1902	Gorky's Lower Depths opens at MKhAT
1903	2nd Party Congress (Brussels) Split into Mensheviks and Bolsheviks
1904	General strike in Tbilisi and Baku
1904-1905	Russo-Japanese War
1905    January 22    October 17	1905 REVOLUTION: General Strike Bloody Sunday October Manifesto   Potemkin Mutiny 3rd Party Congress Constitutional Democrats (Kadets) Program
1906    April	4th Party Congress First Duma First Constitution (Fundamental Law)
1906-1911	The Stolypin | Land Reforms
1907	Second Duma 5th Party Congress Emergence of Triple Entente (France, Britain, Russia) against Triple Alliance (Germany, Austro-Hungary, Italy) Third Duma
1908	Trotsky becomes editor of Pravda in Vienna
1909 May 19	First performance of Diaghilev's Ballet russe
1910    November 7	Igor Stravinsky's Firebird scandalizes Paris Leo Tolstoy dies at Astapovo station
1912    April 4	Fourth Duma Lena gold field massacre (from which Lenin took his pseudonym)
1913	Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring
1914	World War begins St. Petersburg renamed 'Petrograd'
1916 Dec 16	Murder of Rasputin by Felix Yusupov et al.
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