Notes from Underground

Gogol: Dead Souls, Part 1, and

The Overcoat.

Sue: Les Mysteres de Paris (to

1843).

1844

Graduates, but resigns commission in order to pursue literary career.

Sue: Le Juif errant (to 1845).

1845

Completes Poor Folk - acclaimed by the critic Belinsky.

1846

Publication of Poor Folk and The Double.

Sand: La Mare au diable.

1847

Breaks with Belinsky. Joins Petrashevsky circle. 'The Landlady,' 'A Novel in Nine Letters,' 'A Petersburg Chronicle'.

Herzen: Who Is to Blame?

Herzen leaves Russia.

Goncharov: An Ordinary Story.

Thackeray: Vanity Fair

(to 1848).

Belinsky: Letter to Gogol.

1848

'A Faint Heart' and 'White Nights.'

Death of Belinsky.

NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND

DATE

AUTHOR'S LIFE

LITERARY CONTEXT

1849

Netochka Nezvanova. Arrested and imprisoned in Peter and Paul Fortress. Mock execution. Sentenced to hard labor and Siberian exile.

Dickens: David Copperfield (to 1850).

1850

Arrives at Omsk penal colony.

Turgenev: A Month in the Country. Herzen: From the Other Shore.

1851

1852

Tolstoy: Childhood. Turgenev: A Sportsman's Notebook. Death of Gogol.

1853-6

1854

Posted to Semipalatinsk.

1855

1856

Turgenev: Rudin. Aksakov: A Family Chronicle. Nekrasov: Poems.

1857

Marries Maria Dmitrievna Isaeva.

Flaubert: Madame Bovary. Baudelaire: Les Fleurs du mal.

1859

The Friend of the Family. Returns to St. Petersburg.

Turgenev: A Nest of Gentlefolk. Goncharov: Oblomov. Tolstoy: Family Happiness. Ostrovsky: The Storm. Darwin: The Origin of Species.

1860

Starts publication of House of the Dead.

Turgenev: On the Eve, First Love. George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss. Birth of Chekhov. Dickens: Great Expectations (to 1861).

1861

Time commences publication. The Insulted and Injured.

Herzen: My Past and Thoughts (to 1867).

1862.

Travels in Europe. Affair with Polina Suslova.

Turgenev: Fathers and Children. Hugo: Les Miserables. Chernyshevsky arrested.

1863