| 1113. | The Chronicle of Nestor. |
| 1692. | First play produced in Russia, Gregory. |
| | Simeon Polotsky’s The Prodigal Son acted. |
| 1703. | The first Russian newspaper, The Russian News, appears. |
| 1725. | Death of Peter the Great. |
| | Foundation of the Academy of Science. |
| 1744. | Death of Kantemir. |
| 1750. | Death of Tatishchev. |
| 1755. | University of Moscow founded. |
| 1762. | Accession of Catherine the Great. |
| 1765. | Death of Lomonosov. |
| 1790. | Radishchev’s Journey Through Russia published. |
| 1796. | Death of Catherine the Great. |
| 1800. | First edition of The Story of the Raid of Prince Igor published. |
| 1802. | Zhukovsky translates Gray’s Elegy. |
| | Death of Radishchev. |
| 1806. | Krylov’s first fables published. |
| 1816. | Death of Derzhavin. |
| | History of the Russian State, by Karamzin, published. |
| 1819. | University of St. Petersburg founded. |
| 1820. | Pushkin’s Ruslan and Ludmila published. |
| 1823. | Griboyedov’s Misfortune of Being Clever circulated. |
| | First Canto of Eugene Onegin published. |
| 1825. | The Decembrist Attempt. |
| 1826. | Rileev hanged. |
| | Death of Karamzin. |
| 1827. | Pushkin’s Gypsies published. |
| 1829. | Death of Griboyedov. |
| | Pushkin’s Poltava published. |
| 1831. | Pushkin’s Boris Godunov published. |
| | Complete version of Eugene Onegin published. |
| 1832. | Gogol’s Evening on the Farm near the Dikanka published. |
| 1834. | Gogol’s Mirgorod published. |
| 1835. | Gogol’s Revisor produced on the stage. |
| 1836. | Chaadaev’s letters published. |
| 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. |