Notes from Underground

Further travel abroad. Time closed. Winter Notes on Summer Impressions.

Tolstoy: The Cossacks. Chernyshevsky: What Is to Be Done?

1864

Launch of Epoch. Death of wife and brother. Notes from Underground.

Nekrasov: Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia? (to 1876). Dickens: Our Mutual Friend (to 1865).

1865

Epoch closes. Severe financial difficulties.

Leskov: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.

1865-9

Tolstoy: War and Peace.

NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND

DATE

AUTHOR'S LIFE

LITERARY CONTEXT

1866

Crime and Punishment. The Gambler.

The Contemporary and The Russian Word suppressed.

1867

Marries Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina. Flees abroad to escape creditors.

Turgenev: Smoke.

1868

The Idiot. Birth and death of daughter, Sonya. Visits Switzerland and Italy.

Gorky born.

1869

Birth of daughter Liubov.

Goncharov: The Precipice. Flaubert: L'Education sentimentale.

1870

The Eternal Husband.

Death of Dickens and Herzen.

1871

Returns to St. Petersburg. Birth of son, Fyodor.

Ostrovsky: The Forest.

1871-2

Demons (The Devils/ The Possessed),

1872

Summer in Staraia Russa -becomes normal summer residence. Becomes editor of The Citizen.

Leskov: Cathedral Folk. Marx's Das Kapital published in Russia. George Eliot: Middlemarch.

i873

Starts Diary of a Writer.

.874

Resigns from The Citizen. Seeks treatment for emphysema in Bad Ems.

1875

The Adolescent (A Raw Youth). Birth of son, Alexey.

Saltykov-Shchedrin: The

Golovlyovs (to 1880).

1875 -8

Tolstoy: Anna Karenina.

1876

1877

Turgenev: Virgin Soil.

1878

Death of Alexey. Visits Optina monastery with Vladimir Solovyov.

1879

1879-80

The Brothers Karamazov.

Tolstoy's religious crisis, during which he writes A Confession.

1880

Speech at Pushkin celebrations in Moscow.

Death of Flaubert and George Eliot.

1881

Dies of lung hemorrhage. Buried at Alexander Nevsky Monastery, St. Petersburg.

James: The Portrait of a Lady.

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PART ONE

UNDERGROUND

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