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1879 |
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|
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People's Will Party and Black Partition
organizations are established. |
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7
November |
The Communist
revolutionary Lev Davidovich Bronstein (later known as Lev Trotsky) was
born. He played a major role in both the 1905 and 1917 revolutions,
but was later driven into exile by Stalin. |
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|
21
December
(9 December) |
Joseph (Stalin)
Vissarionovich Djugashvili is born in Gori, Georgia |
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1880 |
|
|
|
Dostoevsky publishes his Brothers Karamazov |
|
|
|
Construction of the
Trans-Caspian Railroad is started. |
|
1881 |
|
|
January |
The Russians
massacre the Turkmens at the Battle of Goek-Tepe, resulting in the
creation of the Trans-Caspian province. |
|
|
9 February
(28 January) |
Russian writer Fyodor
Dostoevsky dies in St. Petersburg, Russia. |
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1 March |
Tsar Alexander II is assassinated. |
|
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28 March |
Russian composer and
writer of the opera 'Boris Godunov' Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky dies from
alcohol poisoning. He would be buried at the Alexander Nevsky
Monastary in St. Petersburg. |
|
|
|
Over 4,000 electric
arc lamps designed by Pavel Yablochkov are in
use. |
|
|
|
The Treaty of St.
Petersburg between Russia and China results in the return of the Ili
Valley to China. |
|
|
|
The Russian explorer
Dr. Regel begins a two year exploration of the Pamirs. |
|
1882 |
|
|
|
|
|
1883 |
|
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22 July |
Russian revolutionary and politician, Lev Kamenev is
born. He would be shot in 1935 after being unjustly accused of
conspiring against Stalin. |
|
|
3 September
(22 August) |
Russian novelist and playwright Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev dies near
Bougival, France. |
|
1884 |
|
|
|
Universities experience a wave of
reactionary regulations. |
|
|
|
The Russians
introduce American cotton into Turkestan. |
|
|
|
The Russians occupy
the Merv oasis and complete the conquest of Turkestan. |
|
1885 |
|
|
|
Muslim revolt in the Ferghana Valley against Tsarist rule. |
|
|
|
The Trans-Caspian Railroad reaches Mary (Merv). |
|
|
March |
The Panjdeh Incident occurs in Afghanistan
Russian forces seize the Panjdeh Oasis in Afghanistan. Local forces
attempted to retake it but failed. England interprets the move as a
potential threat to their Indian colony. |
|
|
10 September |
British prime minister William Gladstone reaches a
negotiated settlement with Russia over the Afghan border issue.
Russia is allowed to keep the Panjdeh region. |
|
1886 |
|
|
|
|
|
1887 |
|
|
|
Industrial revolution reaches
Russia. |
|
|
|
England and Russia complete negotiations about exact
location of the Russo-Afghan border. |
|
|
7 July
|
Russian Surrealist painter, printmaker, and designer Marc Chagall was
born in Vitebsk, Belarus. He would go on to become a celebrated
artist in the 20th century. |
|
1888 |
|
|
|
Scheherazade is released
by Rimsky-Korsakov. |
|
|
|
The Trans-Caspian
Railroad reaches Samarkand. |
|
|
September |
Joseph (Stalin)
Vissarionovich Djugashvili enters elementary school in Gori, Georgia. |
|
|
1 November |
Russian explorer Nikolai
Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky dies of Typhus at Karakol on the shores of lake
Issyk Kul. |
|
|
17 November |
Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony
premiers in St. Petersburg. |
|
1889 |
|
|
|
Land Captains are introduced to restrict free peasants use and
ownership of land. |
|
1890 |
|
|
|
Mass immigration of Russian and Ukrainian settlers into
the Kazakh steppe. This lasts until 1892.
|
|
|
|
Borodin
releases the opera 'Prince
Igor' |
|
|
|
Minister Pobedonostaev issues his report on Russian Jewry -
"A third
will convert, a third will immigrate, and the remainder will die out." |
|
|
|
Famed composer Peter Tchaikovsky releases 'Sleeping Beauty'
Nicholas II is one of those in attendance. |
|
|
October |
|
|
|
|
Nicholas II and Prince George of England go on a
nine
month cruise through Mediterranean, Suez Canal, to India, and to
Japan.
|
|
1891 |
|
|
|
Construction begins on the Trans-Siberian
railway.
|
|
|
|
In talks that last until 1893, the Franco-Russian alliance is formed
|
|
|
|
Massive typhus outbreak followed by starvation kills thousands.
|
|
|
|
French fleet visits Kronstadt. 'Marseillaise' is played for them
(the first time the revolutionary song has been legally played in Russia
for anyone).
|
|
|
|
17,000 Jews are brutally evicted from Moscow. |
|
|
27 September
(15 September) |
The Russian writer, Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov, dies.
His "Oblamov" is regarded as one of the most important Russian
novels.
|
|
1892 |
|
|
|
Tret'iakov
donates his art collection to the city of Moscow |
|
|
|
Riots occur in
Tashkent due to a cholera epidemic. |
|
|
|
Count Sergei Witte serves as minister of communications, finance and commerce until
1903 |
|
|
31 May |
Nicholas II visits Vladivostok
and cements the first brick of the passenger rail station there. |
|
1893 |
|
|
|
Grand Duke Nicholas II represents the royal family at the wedding of
George, Duke of York (later King George V). |
|
|
|
Russian fleet visits Toulon, France. |
|
|
|
Electrical engineer
Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin plates platinum wire filaments with tungsten. |
|
|
|
Lenin joins a Marxist study group
and meets Nadezhda Krupskaya. |
|
|
6 November |
Composer Peter Tchaikovsky dies. |
|
1894 |
|
|
|
Poet, publisher, and mentor of
Alexander Blok, Vladimir Soleov'ev begins publishing his works. |
|
|
|
Alexander III falls ill, possibly due to influenza. |
|
|
|
Russia and France sign a treaty of alliance. |
|
|
31 March
(19 March) |
Electrical engineer
and inventor of the electric arc lamp and a form of electric lighting based
on alternating current Pavel Nikolayevich Yablochkov dies. |
|
|
5 April |
Nikita
Sergeyevich Khrushchev is born in Kalinovka, Kursk province, Russian
Empire |
|
|
2 November |
Joseph (Stalin)
Vissarionovich Djugashvili enters the Tiflis Theological Seminary. |
|
|
1 November |
Tsar
Alexander III dies at the age of 49 in Livadia, Crimea. |
|
|
19 November |
Funeral of Tsar Alexander
III. His body lies in state for 17 days. 61 royals from across
Europe and 460 dignitaries from across Russia attend the funeral along
with their entourages. |
|
|
20 November |
The Russian composer
Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein dies. He was best known for his opera
"The Demon". He also founded the conservatory at St
Petersburg taught the composer Tchaikovsky. |
|
|
26 November |
Tsar Nicolas II and Alexandra
marry. |
|
1895 |
|
|
|
Wave of workers strikes across Russia.
Police begin to take notice of Marxists. |
|
|
|
Anglo-Russian
convention is held. It established the Wakham Strip of Afghanistan
which separated Russian and British territories. |
|
|
|
Joseph (Stalin)
Vissarionovich Djugashvili makes contact with a group of Russian Marxists
who had been exiled to the Caucasus for their revolutionary activity. |
|
|
|
Japan occupies several Chinese
territories, but then citing Russian objections the Japanese pull out of
Port Arthur region |
|
|
|
Lenin travels to Geneva to meet
George Plekhanov known as 'the Father of Russian Marxism' |
|
|
November |
Grand Duchess Olga Romanov is
born. |
|
|
December |
Lenin is arrested and spends one
year in St. Petersburg prison before being exiled to Shushenskoe Siberia
for three years. |
|
1896 |
|
|
|
Disastrous production of Anton Chekhov's
'The Seagull' in St. Petersburg |
|
|
26 May |
Coronation of Nicholas II.
A disturbance in the viewing crowd causes them to stampede. This
leaves hundreds dead and thousands injured. |
|
1897 |
|
|
28 January |
First all-Russian census counts 128,907,692 people. |
|
|
|
Textile workers strike leads to 11.5 hour
workday.
Lenin exiled to Siberia |
|
|
June |
Grand Duchess Tatiana Romanov is
born. |
|
1898 |
|
|
|
Moscow Art
Theater founded, produces Chekhov's
'Sea Gull'. |
|
|
|
1st Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Party (Minsk) |
|
|
|
Muslim uprising occurs
in Andijan against Russians. |
|
|
|
Russia secures a 99 year lease to
Port Arthur from Chinese government. Port Arthur is soon occupied by
Russian military. |
|
|
|
Finns begin to lose many of their rights as a nation. |
|
|
January |
Joseph Djugashvili (Stalin) starts a worker's Marxist circle in the Tiflis Central Railway
Workshops. |
|
|
May |
Grand Duchess Marie Romanov is
born. |
|
|
10 July |
Lenin and Nadezhda Krupskaya marry. |
|
|
August |
Joseph Djugashvili (Stalin) joins the Georgian Social-Democratic organization Messameh
Dassy. |
|
|
24 August |
Tsar Nicholas II
proposes a conference with other major powers for the "preservation
of general peace by disarmament". |
|
1899 |
|
|
|
Famed bass opera singer, Fedor
Chaliapin makes his first debut in Russian theater. |
|
|
|
Serge Dinghilev founds the
journal 'The World of Art' and criticizes Russian ballet. |
|
|
May |
Russian and members of other
European powers sign the Hague Treaty. Rules of Warfare are
established and the World Court is formed. |
|
|
29 May |
Joseph Djugashvili (Stalin) is expelled from the Tiflis Theological Seminary for his
Marxist activities. |
|
|
Summer |
Grand Duke George Romanov dies of
tuberculosis. |
|
|
|
Alexander Kerensky moves to St.
Petersburg to study. |
