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THE IMPERIAL PERIOD, 1689-1917 |
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1689-1725 |
PETER I, THE GREAT  |
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1695 |
Beginning of the Russian navy |
1696 July 18 |
Surrender of Azov to Peter I |
1697 |
Conquest of Kamchatka |
1697-1698 |
Peter's visit to the West
Revolt of Streltsy crushed |
1700 |
Suspension of the patriarchate |
1700-1721 |
Great Northern War with Sweden |
1703 |
Founding of St. Petersburg |
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Russia's first newspaper established: Vedomosti o voennykh i inykh delakh |
May |
Peter & Paul Fortress founded |
1704 |
Peter I takes Narva from Charles XII of Sweden  |
1707-1708 |
Bulavin uprising |
1708 |
Establishment of the guberniias (provinces) |
1709 |
Russian victory over Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava |
1710 |
First census (household and tax) |
1711 |
First press in St. Petersburg |
November 19 |
Mikhail Lomonosov born |
1713 |
Transfer of capital to St. Petersburg |
1716-1717 |
Jean-Baptiste Le Blond begins Petrodvorets (Peterhof) |
1718 |
Institution of poll tax
Foundation of administrative colleges
Tsarevich Alexis killed |
1720 |
Pososhkov's book On Poverty and Wealth |
1721 |
Holy Synod replaces patriarchate
Treaty of Nystad:
Livonia, Estonia, Karelia, Ingria acquired from Sweden
Peter assumes the title of emperor
Organization of state postal service |
1722 |
Table of Ranks
established |
1725 |
Death of Peter the Great
Foundation of the Academy of Sciences |
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1725-1727 |
CATHERINE I SKAVRONSKA |
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1727-1730 |
PETER II ROMANOV |
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1728 |
Sankt-Peterburgskie vedomosti first published |
1725-1729 |
Arctic expedition of Vitus Bering (second, 1732-1741) |
1730 |
Struggle over the terms of the succession |
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1730-1740 |
ANNA ROMANOVA |
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1741 |
Lomonosov appointed to the Academy of Sciences
Vitus Bering discovers the Aleutian Islands and Alaska |
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1740-1741 |
IVAN VI ROMANOV |
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1741-1762 |
ELIZABETH ROMANOVA |
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1746 |
Ban of purchase of serfs by non-nobles |
1750 |
First professional Russian theater founded in Yaroslavl by Fyodor Volkov |
1753 |
Decree abolishing internal customs |
1754-1762 |
Bartolomeo Rastrelli builds the Winter Palace |
1755 |
Lomonosov founds Moscow University |
1760's |
Fonvizin's comedies The Brigadier, The General and The Minor |
1760 |
Landowners granted right to exile serfs to Siberia |
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1761-1762 |
PETER III * ROMANOV |
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1762 |
Peter III issues Manifesto on the Rights of the Nobility
Peter III murdered |
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1762-1796 |
CATHERINE II * THE GREAT VON ANHALT-ZERBST |
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1764-67 |
Founding of German colonies along the Lower Volga River |
1764 |
Final secularization of Church lands |
1765 |
Establishment of the Free Economic Society |
1767 |
Peasants forbidden to submit complaints against their landowners |
1767-1768 |
Legislative Commission |
1769-1794 |
Catherine the Great publishes satirical journals
Novikov's journals The Drone and The Painter |
1772 |
First partition of Poland--Belorussia annexed to Russia |
1773-1775 |
Revolt of Pugachev |
1774 |
Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainardji |
1775 |
Liquidation of the Zaporozhian Cossacks |
1780's |
Englishman Cameron builds at Tsarskoe Selo |
1781-1786 |
Full absorption of the Ukraine into Russian Empire |
1782-1785 |
Giacomo Quarenghi builds the Hermitage |
1783 |
Incorporation of the Crimea
Private printing presses permitted |
1784 |
Gregory Shelekov establishes the first colony in Alaska |
1785 April 21 |
Charter of the Nobility and gentry an estate |
1790 |
Radishchev's Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow |
1793 |
Second Partition of Poland |
1795 |
Third Partition of Poland |
1796 |
Death of Catherine the Great
The Alexander Palace is completed |
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1796-1801 |
PAUL I ROMANOV |
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1797 |
Establishment of the three-day barshchina |
1799 |
Russo-American Trading Company formed
Suvorov's campaign in northern Italy and Switzerland |
June 6 |
Alexander S. Pushkin born |
1801 |
Murder of Paul I |
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1801-1825 |
ALEXANDER I ROMANOV  |
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1801 |
Acquisition of eastern Georgia
Sale of serfs without land prohibited |
1802 |
Formation of ministries |
1806 |
Conquest of Daghestan and Baku |
1806-1815 |
The new Admiralty built by Zakharov |
1807-1811 |
Reforms of Speransky |
1809 |
Krylov's Fables
Annexation of Finland |
1812 June 24 |
Napoleon's invasion of Russia |
August 26 |
Battle of Borodino |
Sept 14 |
Napoleon enters Moscow |
October 19 |
Napoleon departs Moscow |
1813-1814 |
Alexander's pursuit of Napoleon to Paris |
1815-1825 |
Ascendancy of Arakcheev |
1816-1819 |
Abolition of serfdom in Baltic provinces |
1817 |
Transfer of the Makariev Fair to Nizhnii Novgorod |
1817-1857 |
Montferrand builds St. Isaac's Cathedral |
1818 |
Karamzin's History of the Russian State |
1819 |
University of St. Petersburg founded |
1819-1829 |
The Italian Rossi builds the General Staff Building on Palace Square |
1821 |
F. M. Dostoevsky born October 30 in Moscow |
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1825-1855 |
NICHOLAS I ROMANOV |
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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 Nicholas I |
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1855-1881 |
ALEXANDER II ROMANOV |
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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
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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
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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
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1879 |
People's Will Party and Black Partition established |
1880 |
Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov
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1881 March 1 |
Assassination of Alexander II |
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1881-1894 |
ALEXANDER III ROMANOV
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1884 |
Reactionary regulations for universities |
1888 |
Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade
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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 |
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1894-1917 |
NICHOLAS II * ROMANOV  |
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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
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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
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1906
April |
4th Party Congress
First Duma
First Constitution (Fundamental Law)
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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
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1911-1913 |
Balkan Wars |
1912 April 4 |
Fourth Duma
Lena gold field massacre (from which Lenin took his pseudonym)
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1913 |
Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring |
1914 |
World War I begins
St. Petersburg renamed 'Petrograd' |
1916 Dec 16 |
Murder of Rasputin by Felix | Yusupov et al. |
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