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RUSS 67: DOSTOEVSKY AND GOGOL DOSTOEVSKY ON A PAGE |
(Works we'll read are in bold face)
| 1506 |
Danila Rtishchev given a village of Dostoevo, near Pinsk, now Belarus |
| 1789 |
Mikhail Andreevich D. (D's father), born, son of Uniate
priest (F.D.'s grandfather)
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| 1819 |
Mikhail Andreevich D., now army doctor, marries Maria
Fedorovna Mechaeva, 19, merchant's daughter, in Moscow
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| 1820 |
Mikhail D. born (Fedor's brother and future literary collaborator)
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| 1821 |
Fedor Mikhailovich D. born, October 30th, Moscow Hospital
for the Poor where his father worked
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| 1831 |
Purchase of Darova estate, near Tula.
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| 1832 |
Purchase of Chermashnia, next to Darova.
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| 1834 |
Fedor and Mikhail at Chermak "pension" in Moscow.
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| 1835 |
Alexandra (sister) born.
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| 1837 |
Mother dies, father retires to country
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| 1838 |
Fedor and Mikhail enter Military engineers' Academy, St.
Petersburg.
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| 1839 |
Father dies, rumors (most likely false) that he was murdered
by his peasants
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| 1843 |
Fedor graduates, assigned to St. Petersburg Military engineers
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| 1844 |
Fedor retires from Army. Translates Balzac's Eugenie
Grandet
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| 1845 |
Poor Folk completed. Girgorovich, Nekrasov, Belinsky,
Panaev, Turgenev, read and praise it.
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| 1846 |
Poor Folk published. The Double, "Mr Prokharchin."
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| 1847 |
F.D. starts attending Petrashevsky circle. Speshnev, Durov.
Feuilletons for the St.Petersburg Gazette, Novel in Nine Letters,
"The Landlady"
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| 1848 |
"Another Man's Wife," "A Faint Heart," "Polzunkov," "The
Honest Thief," "White Nights," "The Christmas Tree and the Wedding"
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| 1849 |
April 15, reads Belinsky's "Letter to Gogol" at a Petrashevsky
circle gathering, April 23, arrested; May 6 questioned; Dec. 22, "execution,"
"Netochka Nezvanovna"; Dec 24-25, sent to Siberia
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| 1850 |
In Omsk fortress as a convict
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| 1854 |
In Semipalatinsk as private
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| 1855 |
Promoted to non-commissioned officer |
| 1856 |
Promoted to commissioned officer
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| 1857 | Civil rights restored. Married Maria Isaeva, 29, widow with one son; "A Little Hero" |
| 1859 |
Released to Tver'. "Uncle's Dream," The Village
of Stepanchikovo (also tr. as A Friend of the Family);
Dec. 16 to St. Petersburg
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| 1860 |
The House of the Dead. Collected Works (2
vols.)
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| 1861 |
Editor of Time. The House of the Dead completed. The Insulted and the Injured (also tr. as The Humiliated and Wronged) |
| 1862 |
Travel to Europe. "A Vile Story." Meets Apollinaria Suslova.
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| 1863 |
Time closed. Travel to Europe: Paris, Italy, Baden,
Gambling. Suslova. Winter Notes on Summer Impressions
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| 1864 |
Editor of Epoch. Wife and brother Mikhail die.
Notes From Underground
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| 1865 |
Works, published in 2 vols. Wiesbaden. Suslova.
Proposes to A. Krukovskaia--rejected. "The Crocodile"
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| 1866 |
Crime and Punishment. The Gambler.
Money troubles. Proposes to his stenographer, Anna Grigorevna Snitkina.
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| 1867 |
Marries Snitkina. Travel to Germany, Switzerland
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| 1868 |
Switzerland and Italy. The Idiot. Daughter
Sofiia dies, three months old.
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| 1870 |
Italy and Germany. Daughter Liubov born. "The Eternal
Husband"
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| 1871 |
July, begins The Devils (The Possessed).
Plan for Life of a Great Sinner. Back to St. Petersburg. Son Fedor
born. The Devils
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| 1872 |
The Devils continued. Meets Pobedonostsev.
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| 1873 |
St. Petersburg. Editor of The Citizen where he
publishes Diary of a Writer
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| 1874 |
St. Petersburg. Under arrest March 21-23. April, leaves
The Citizen
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| 1875 |
A Raw Youth in Notes of the Fatherland.
Son Alexei born.
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| 1876 |
Diary of a Writer as own journal
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| 1877 |
Diary of a Writer
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| 1878 |
Interrupts Diary. Son Alexei dies of epilepsy.
Visits Optina Pustyn' monastery with V. Solov'ev. Sees Father Ambrose.
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| 1879 |
The Brothers Karamazov
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| 1880 |
June 8, Pushkin speech. November, finishes The Brothers
Karamazov
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| 1881 |
January 28, dies in Moscow.
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