CHRONOLOGY - Russia: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present - page 413

1837
Alexander Pushkin killed in a duel.

1845
Hereditary gentry status restricted to top five
ranks of Table of Ranks.
Revised version of Criminal Code is issued.
Annexation of Kazakh Inner Horde, followed by
1848 annexation of Great Horde.

1837-1842
State peasant reforms under P. D. Kiselev.

1838
Founding of Estonian Scholarly Society.
First Russian railroad—St. Petersburg to Tsarskoe
Selo (Pushkin).

1845-1847
Movement to convert Latvians and Estonians to
Orthodox Church.

1846
Founding of Ukrainian secret national society of
St. Cyril and St. Methodius in Kiev.
Russians occupy Cracow.
Abolition of English Corn Laws; increase in Rus-
sian grain exports.
Dostoevsky publishes Poor Folk.
Turgenev publishes A Sportsman's Sketches.

1838-1847
Vissarion Belinsky works on Notes of the Fatherland.

1839
Incorporation of Uniate Church (with the excep-
tion of the Kingdom of Poland) into Russian
Orthodox Church.
Failed Russian expedition against Khiva.

1847
Exchange between Gogol and Belinsky ([Belin-
skii's Letter to Gogol ]).
Herzen leaves Russia for western Europe and
never returns.

1840
Abolition of Lithuanian Statute in “Western pro-
vinces.”
Lermontov's Hero of Our Time published.
Publication of Kobzar, a volume of poetry by the
Ukrainian writer and patriot Taras Shevchenko.
Bakunin leaves Russia for Germany.

1848
Revolutions in France, Austria, Italy, and Germany.
Publication of Marx's “Communist Manifesto.”
Death of Vissarion Belinsky.

1841
Straits Convention.
Ban against individual sale of peasants.
Lermontov killed in a duel.

1849
Nicholas intervenes to help Austria put down
Hungarian revolt.
Arrest of Petrashevsky Circle. Dostoevsky and
other members sentenced to death, but
reprieved on the scaffold, and sentenced to
hard labor in Siberia.
Russia rediscovers mouth of Amur River.

1842
Gogol publishes Dead Souls.
Glinka's opera Ruslan and Liudmilla.

1842-1851
Construction of first long-distance Russian rail-
way line (St. Petersburg-Moscow).

1849-1860
Second stage of agrarian reform in Baltic provinces.

1844
Agreement with Britain over partition of Turkey.

1850
Olmutz Agreement.