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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
1812 Born in Simbirsk on the 6th (18th, new style) June.
1822 Went to Moscow School of Commerce.
1831-34 Studied at the University of Moscow.
1834-35 Civil servant at Simbirsk.
1835 Arrived in Petersburg, where he took up a post in the
Ministry of Finance.
1839 His first story, A Lucky Error, appeared in Maikov's private
miscellany, The Moon Nights.
1846 Goncharov met Belinsky.
1847 A Common Story.
1848 Ivan Savich Poclzhabrin.
1849 Oblomov' s Dream.
1852 Left in October on the frigate Pallas for Japan as secretary
of the Russian commercial mission.
1855 Returned home in February (via Siberia).
1855 The Russians in Japan.
1858 Frigate Pallas.
1859 Oblomov.
1856-60 Goncharov worked in the department of censorship.
1862 Editor of The Northern Mail.
1863-67 Member of the Board of the Press.
1867 Retired.
1869 The Ravine.
1870 Better Late Than Never, and also My University Reminis-
cences.
1872 A Million Torments.
1874 Notes about Belinsky's Personality.
1875-76 An Uncommon Story (published 1924).
1877 A Literary Evening.
1887 At Home.
1888 Old-Time Servants.
1891 Goncharov died on the 15th (28th, new style) September.

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