CHRONOLOGY - Russia: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present - page 417

Three Emperors' Alliance agreement signed by
Russia, Germany and Austria; renewed for
three years in 1884.

Revolutionaries attempt to assassinate Alexan-
der III. Among those captured and executed
is Aleksandr Ulianov, Lenin's older brother.
Soul tax abolished.
Introduction of restrictions on the number of
Jews in grammar schools and tertiary sec-
ondary educational institutions.

1881-1894
Reign of Alexander III.

1881-1899
Construction of Transcaspian Railway.

1888
Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade.

1882
Law prohibits factories from hiring children
under 12 or from employing those aged 12 to
15 more than eight hours a day.
May Laws further anti-Jewish discrimination.

1889
Russian judicial reform; Russian established as
language of the courts in Baltic provinces.
Creation of the office of Land Captain.

1882-1884
Period of counterreforms in censorship (1882),
education (1884), and the church (1884).

1890
Decree on zemstvos strengthens government's
power over them.
German government refuses to renew Reinsur-
ance Treaty with Russia.
Founding of Revolutionary Armenian Federalist
Party (Dashnaks).
Borodin's opera Prince Igor .
Tchaikovsky's ballet Sleeping Beauty.

1883
First Russian Marxist organization, Emancipa-
tion of Labor, established in Geneva by Rus-
sian exiles.
Ismail Bey Gasprali founds Tercuman ( Interpreter ),
influential journal addressed to Muslims in
the Russian Empire.

1891
Statute on administration of steppe areas.
Jews expelled from Moscow.

1884
Russia occupies Merv.
University Statutes curtail university autonomy.

1891-1892
Famine in European Russia.

1885
Introduction of Russian as teaching language in
primary schools in the Kingdom of Poland.
Anglo-Russian crisis over Afghanistan leads to
agreement over Russo-Afghan frontier.
New edition of Criminal Code.
Establishment of Gentry Land Bank.
Poll tax abolished.

1891-1903
Construction of Trans-Siberian Railway.

1891-1893
Franco-Russian alliance takes shape.

1886
Special rules governing forced labor.

1892
Founding of Polish Socialist Party (PPS).
New restrictions on urban zemstvos.
Sergei Tretiakov donates his art collection to the
city of Moscow.

1887
Reinsurance Treaty between Russia and Germany.