CHRONOLOGY OF
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
Italicized items are works by Dostoevsky listed by year of first publication. Dates are Old Style, which means that they tag behind those used in nineteenth-century Western Europe by twelve days.
| 1821 | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky is born in Moscow, the son of an army doctor (30 October). |
| 1837 | His mother dies. |
| 1838 |
Enters the Engineering Academy in St Petersburg as an army cadet. |
| 1839 | His father dies, probably murdered by his serfs. |
| 1842 | Is promoted to Second Lieutenant. |
| 1843 | Translates Balzac Eugénie Grandet. |
| 1844 | Resigns his army commission. |
| 1846 | Poor Folk |
| The Double | |
| 1849 | Netochka Nezvanova Is led out for execution in the Semenovsky Square in St Petersburg (22 December); his sentence is commuted at the last moment to penal servitude, to be followed by army service and exile, in Siberia; he is deprived of his army commission. |
| 1850-4 | Serves four years at the prison at Omsk in western Siberia. |
| 1854 |
Is released from prison (March), but is immediately posted as a private soldier to an infantry battalion stationed at Semipalatinsk, in western Siberia. |
| 1855 |
Is promoted to Corporal. Death of Nicholas I; accession of Alexander II. |
| 1856 | Is promoted to Ensign. |
| 1857 | Marries Maria Dmitrievna Isaeva (6 February). |
| 1859 |
Resigns his army commission with the rank of Second Lieutenant (March), and receives permission to return to European Russia. Resides in Tver (August-December). Moves to St Petersburg (December). Uncle's Dream The Village of Stepanchikovo |
| 1861 |
Begins publication of a new literary monthly, Vremia, founded by himself and his brother Mikhail (January). |
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Publication information:
Book title: The Karamazov Brothers.
Contributors: Fyodor Dostoevsky - Author, Ignat Avsey - Translator.
Publisher: Oxford University Press.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 1994.
Page number: xxxiii.
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