CHRONOLOGY - Russia: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present - page 412

1826
Execution of five Decembrist conspirators; oth-
ers condemned to Siberian exile.
Organization of Third Section of Imperial Chan-
cery, the government's political police.
Censorship Code.

1832
Uvarov enunciates ideological foundation of
Nicholas I's government: “autocracy, ortho-
doxy, nationality.”
Alexandrine theater in St. Petersburg opens.
“Organic Statute of Kingdom of Poland” abol-
ishes Poland's previous legal status, abolishes
its army, and dissolves its Sejm (parliament).
Reform of University Statutes.
Uprising in Georgia.

1826-1828
War with Persia leads to Russian conquest of
khanates of Erivan and Nakhichevan; ends
with Treaty of Turkmanchai.

1833
First modern law code (Svod zakonov) is pub-
lished; takes effect in 1835.
Doctrine of “Official Nationality” proclaimed.
Treaty of Unkiar Skelessi.
Convention of Berlin.
Uvarov becomes minister of education.

1827
Battle of Navarino.

1828
Resumption of Orthodox missionary activity in
the east of the empire.
Autonomous status of Bessarabia curtailed.

1834
Russian language is introduced in the adminis-
tration, the courts, and schools in areas of
Poland-Lithuania annexed in the previous
century.
(Russian) University of Kiev opens in place of
(Polish) University of Vilna, which was closed
in 1832.

1828-1829
War with Turkey; ends with Treaty of Adrianople.

1829-1864
Caucasian War.

1830
Publication of The Complete Collection of Laws of the
Russian Empire, first codification of laws since
1649.
Cholera Riots.
Munchengratz agreement.
Mathematician Lobachevsky publishes first work.

1834-1859
Shamil takes over anti-Russian resistance in
Caucasus and founds a theocratic imamate.

1835
Population of Russian Empire estimated at 60
million, based on tax revisions.

1830-1831
Revolutions in France, Belgium, and German
principalities.
November Insurrection in Poland; Polish consti-
tution abrogated.

1836
Independence and privileges of Armenian church
are confirmed.
Peter Chaadaev's “First Philosophical Letter,”
highly critical of Russian culture, is published.
Chaadaev is officially declared insane by the
government.
First performance of Gogol's The Government
Inspector and Ivan Glinka's A Life for the Tsar.

1831
Founding of Finnish Literary Society.
Pushkin completes Eugene Onegin .
Aleksandr Herzen, representative of emerging
radical intelligentsia, banished to Vyatka.