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1873
Three Emperor's League first formed with Rus-
sia, Germany and Austria-Hungary.
Russia establishes protectorate over Khanate of
Khiva.
chief. Government issues temporary law allow-
ing court-martialing of terrorists. It also issues
secret circular permitting the arrest and exile of
persons suspected of seditious intent.
Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto takes Paris by
storm.
1873-1874
First Going to the People movement.
1878-1881
Terrorist activities continue. Winter Palace is
dynamited; imperial trains attacked. Alexan-
der II survives several assassination attempts.
1874
Introduction of universal military service in Rus-
sian Empire, the final component of Miliutin's
military reforms.
Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov.
1879
Land and Liberty divides into Black Repartition
and People's Will.
Temporary Governors General created (April).
Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin .
Tekke Turkmen defeat Russians.
1875
Sakhalin Island becomes Russian after Treaty of
St. Petersburg with Japan.
1876
Annexation of Khanate of Kokand.
Formation of revolutionary group Land and Lib-
erty.
1880
Death of Empress Maria and remarriage of
Alexander II.
Dostoevsky completes Brothers Karamazov.
Konstantin Pobedonostsev, conservative adviser,
begins term as procurator of the Holy Synod.
Will serve until 1905.
1877
Introduction of Russian municipal order in the
Baltic provinces.
Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake .
Tolstoy completes Anna Karenina .
1880-1881
General Loris-Melikov's “dictatorship of the
heart” to deal with terrorist threat.
1877-1878
Russo-Turkish War; areas of Kars, Ardahan,
Batumi, and southern Bessarabia are ceded
to Russia.
Mass trials of radicals and revolutionaries.
1881
Conquest of Turkmen fortress of Gok Tepe,
annexation of Turkmenistan.
Treaty of St. Petersburg with China; Russia
returns territories in Chinese Sinkiang, seized
in 1871.
Assassination of Czar Alexander II by members
of People's Will.
1878
Treaty of San Stefano in March 1878 between
Russia and Turkey. Settlement seen as too
favorable to Russia by other European pow-
ers. Congress of Berlin in June, presided over
by Bismarck, amends previous treaty.
Grand Duchy of Finland receives a largely auto-
nomous army.
Terrorist wave in St. Petersburg begins in August
when Vera Zasulich shoots St. Petersburg police
1881-1882
Reaction against terrorism. Temporary Regula-
tions give the police “extraordinary powers”
in fighting the revolutionary movement.
Pogroms against Jews in the Ukraine and War-
saw.
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