19th Century Russia

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19th Century Russia

• The Historical Time Frame of Crime and Punishment
  by
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Tsar Alexander I

• Tsar from 1777-1825
• June 24, 1812 Napoleon Invades
• September 14, 1812 Napoleon enters flaming Moscow
• Napoleons retreat through Russian winter
• October 1813 Napoleon driven back into France
• 1815 Peace Settlement

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Tsar Nicholas I

• Tsar from 1825-1855
• Pinnacle of Russian Empire reached
• Striving for modernization and freedoms
  (Speransky)
• 1828-1829 Russo-Turkish War
• Revolutions of 1848 in Central Europe
• 1848 Marx and Engels Communist Manifesto
• 1854-1856 Crimean War

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Tsar Alexander II

• Tsar from 1855-1881
• 1856 Paris Peace to Crimean War
• 1861 Emancipation Act freeing serfs
• 1863 Rebellion in Poland
• Edict of 1864 established zemstvos, district
  councils to deal with education, medicine and
  welfare
• 1881 Tsar assassinated for arresting radical
  populist students

• Half a league, half a league, Half a league
  onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six
  hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge
  for the guns!" he said Into the valley of Death
  Rode the six hundred.
• -Lord Alfred Tennyson

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Tsar Alexander III

• Tsar from 1881-1894
• Dostoyevsky dies in 1881
• Pan-Slavism
• Russian Nationalism
• Industrial Development
• Reactionary Policies
• Russia is weakened and begins a steady decline

 
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Tsar Nicholas II

• Tsar from 1894-1917
• 1904 Russo-Japanese War
• 1905 October Manifesto (Duma)
• 1914 WWII
• March 1917 Abdication
• July 1918 Romanovs are executed by Bolsheviks

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Constant Themes

• Westernizers vs. Slavophils
• Orthodox Christian Church
• Terrible Poverty and Class Struggle
• Censorship of Intelligentsia
• Great Age of Literature (Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy,
  Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev and Chekhov)

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Siberia