1750s			1757 Foundation of the Academy of Arts in St Petersburg.
1760
1761				1761 Empress Elizabeth dies, Peter III to throne.
1762	1762 19 August. Academy opens for seven days for public examination and exhibition.			1762 Catherine II takes the throne. Peter III murdered.
1763			1763 First programme set for students of Academy.
1764			1764 January. Sale of students' works at Academy to attract public interest. 1764 Academy granted Statute by Catherine II.
1765
1766			1766 First catalogue of Academy exhibition
1767
1768
1769	1769 Academy: On return from Rome, Losenko, Kain (Cain), Avel' (Abel), and Pravosudie (Justice) (copy of Raphael)	1769 Smes' (The Medley) publishes 'Pis'mo k izdateliu' (Losenko's contribution to Russian painting.)
1770	1770 May. Falconet opens S-Pb studio for two weeks to display model of monument to Peter the Great. 1770 Summer. Annual exhibition at Academy: Losenko. Vladimir pered Rognedoi (Vladimir and Rogneda).
1771
1772
1773			1773-4 Diderot visits S-Pb. Frequent meetings with Catherine II, visits Academy of Arts.
1774
1775
1776
1777
1778
1779
1780
1781
1782	1782 7 August. Falconet's monument to Peter the Great unveiled in S-Pb.
1783
1784
1785
1786
1787
1788
1789		1789 Arkhip Ivanov's translation of Roger de Piles.
1790
1791
1792		1792 Chekalevskii, Rassuzhdenie o svobodnykh khudozhestvakh
1793
1794
1795
1796				1796 Catherine II outlaws private printing presses. Catherine II dies, Paul I ascends throne, severe censorship on press and restrictions on import of foreign publications
1797
1798
1799			1799 Artists not associated with Academy allowed to exhibit at Academy exhibitions
1800
1801				1801 Paul I assassinated. Alexander I lifts restrictions on foreign books and eases censorship
1802				1802 Alexander I allows private printing presses
1803
1804	1804 Academy: Martos, model of Minin and Pozharskii monument	1804 Academy exhibition reviewed in Severnyi vestnik (The Northern Messenger).		1804 Censorship statute encourages press discussion of topical issues and promotion of education.
1805			1805 Kiprenskii receives Academy Major Gold Medal for painting Dmitrii Donskoi na Kulikovom pole (Dmitrii Donskoi on Kulikovo Field)
1806
1807		1807 First Russian journal devoted to art, Zhurnal iziashchnykh iskusstv
1808
1809
1810
1811
1812				1812-14 War with Napoleon
1813
1814	1814 Academy Exhibition: Egorov, Istiazanie Khrista (Scourging of Christ), portraits by Kiprenskii and Varnek.	1814 December. Batiushkov, Progulka v Akademiiu khudozhestv (A Stroll to the Academy of Arts)
1815
1816
1817
1818	1818 Martos monument to Minin and Pozharskii unveiled in Moscow.
1819
1820			1820 Foundation of Society for the Encouragement of the Artists
1821
1822
1823		1823-5 Zhurnal iziashchnykh iskusstv (The Journal of the Fine Arts) published (S-Pb) by Vasilii Grigorovich
1824
1825		1825 Aleksandr Galich, Opyt nauki iziashchnogo (Essay on the Science of Beauty).		1825 Alexander I dies. Nicholas I to throne having suppressed Decembrists' revolt.
1826	1826 1812 War Gallery opened at Winter Palace		1826 January. Society for the Encouragement of the Artists opens permanent S-Pb exhibition to display and sell artists' works.
1827	1827 Academy exhibition			1827 First study of public opinion in Russia by Maksim Von Vock
1828				1828 First copyright law in Russia
1829
1830			1830s Beginning of journalism oriented to wide public
1831
1832
1833	1833 First Academy exhibition catalogues			1833 'Official nationality' adopted as state ideology
1834	1834 Briullov, Poslednii den' Pompei (The Last Day of Pompeii) at Hermitage.	1834 Nikolai Gogol'. 'Poslednii den' Pompei. (Kartina Briullova)' (The Last Day of Pompeii: Painting by Briullov').
1835
1836	1836 Academy: Ivanov, Iavlenie Khrista Marii Magdaline (The Appearance of Christ to Mary Magdalene).	1836-41 Khudozhestvennaia gazeta published in S-Pb
1837
1838
1839
1840			1840 Reform of Academy of Arts
1841
1842	1842 Academy: Bruni, Mednyi zmii (The Bronze Serpent)	1842 Vasilii Botkin, 'Vystavka imperatorskoi Sankt-Peterburgskoi Akademii khudozhestv v 1842 godu' 1842 Index of Academy holdings published
1843			1843 Inauguration of Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture
1844
1845			1845 December. Nicholas I visits Rome, inspects works by Russian artists, incl. Ivanov 1845 Nekrasov, Fiziologiia Peterburga
1846		1846 Nikolai Gogol'. 'Istoricheskii zhivopisets Ivanov'	1846 First use of term natural'naia shkola
1847	1847 Academy: Aivazovskii 1847 Rizzoni, Tolkuchii rynok (Second-hand Market) receives Major Gold Medal.	1847 Maikov, 'Vystavka kartin Aivazovskogo v 1847 godu' and 'Godichnaia vystavka v imperatorskoi Akademii khudozhestv'
1848	1848 Academy: Fedotov, Svatovstvo maiora, Razborchivaia nevesta and Svezhii kavaler	1848 Belinskii advocates 'natural school' in literature	1848 26 May. Belinskii dies	1848 Revolutions in Europe 1848-53 Harsh intimidation of press to prevent dissemination of revolutionary ideas
1849
1850	1850 Academy exhibition
1851	1851 Academy exhibition: works of art and rare objects 1851 October: Academy exhibition, Fedotov. Vdovushka (The Widow)	1851-62 Russkii khudozhestvennyi listok published
1852	1852 New Hermitage opens as public museum		1852 11 June. Briullov dies in Rome	1853-55 Crimean War
1853
1854
1855		1855 Chernyshevskii, Esteticheskie otnosheniia iskusstva k deistvitel'nosti		1855 Nicholas I dies. Alexander II begins 'great reforms', granting limited press freedom
1856		1856 Mikhail Zheleznov, 'Znachenie Briullova v iskusstve'	1856 Tret'iakov begins collection of art 1856 Academy opens class of Orthodox icon painting	1856 March 18. Treaty of Paris ends Crimean war
1857	1857 Academy annual exhibition	1857 Maikov, 'Vystavka imperatorskoi Akademii khudozhestv 1857 goda'
1858	1858 Academy, June: Ivanov, Iavlenie Khrista narodu		1858 Théophile Gautier's first visit to Russia 1858 3 July. Ivanov dies in St Petersburg
1859		1859 Mikhailov, 'Khudozhestvennaia vystavka v Peterburge'	1859 New statute at Academy 1859-60 Dobroliubov, 'real'naia kritika' 1859 Charles Darwin, Origin of Species
1860	1860 Academy annual exhibition 1860 Academy: seascapes by Bogoliubov 1860 Exhibition of Society for the Encouragement of the Artists	1860 Kovalevskii, 'O khudozhestvakh i khudozhnikakh v Rossii' and 'Novoe imia v russkikh khudozhestvakh'	1860s Mechanised printing presses greatly increase output 1860 Moscow Society of Art Lovers founded	1860s Rise of Russian populist movement
1861	1861 Academy exhibition 1861 Works for London world exhibition shown at Academy 1861 Perov, Sel'skii krestnyi khod na Paskhe in St Petersburg	1861 Zemchuzhnikov on Academy exhibition 1861 Stasov articles on critical realism and the Academy 1861 Dostoevskii on Academy exhibition	1861 Gautier's second visit to Russia. Dobroliubov dies.
1862	1862 World Exhibition in London			1862 Chernyshevskii imprisoned
1863	1863 Academy annual exhibition 1863 Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe at first Paris Salon des Refusés	1863 Dmitriev, 'Rassharkivaiushcheesia iskusstvo' 1863 Stasov criticises World Exhibition 1863 Saltykov-Shchedrin on Ge	1863 The Fourteen leave the Academy 1863 Renan, Histoire des origines du christianisme
1864	1864 Academy: collection of Prince Nikolai Kushelev-Bezborodko 1864 Academy: Flavitskii, Kniazhna Tarakanova (Princess Tarakanova)	1864 Pogodin on Ge 1864 Stasov on the Fourteen censored
1865	1865 Academy: Illarion Prianishnikov, Shutniki (Humorists)	1865 Bruni, 'Antagonistam Akademii khudozhestv' 1865 Proudhon, Du Principe de l'art et de sa destination sociale (in Russian translation)	1865 First annual competition in the Society for the Encouragement of the Artists	1865 New Censorship Statute
1866	1866 Academy: works of previous decade for Paris World exhibition			1866 4 April. Dmitrii Karakozov's failed attempt to assassinate Alexander II 1866 Authorities close radical journals Sovremennik (The Contemporary) and Russkoe slovo (The Russian Word).
1867	1867 Paris: World Exhibition
1868		1868 Buslaev, 'Zadachi sovremennoi esteticheskoi kritiki'		1868 Conquest of Samarkand. Vereshchagin begins paintings inspired by campaign
1869	1869 Vereshchagin, Turkestanskaia seriia	1869 Taine, Filosofiia iskusstva
1870			1870 The Association of Travelling Art Exhibitions (the Peredvizhniki) is established. 1870 A. F. Marks begins weekly journal Niva (The Field) 1870 Mamontov purchase of Abramtsevo
1871	1871 Ilia Repin's Burlaki na Volge (The Volga Barge Haulers) receives first prize at Society for the Encouragement of the Artists competition. 1871 First exhibition of the Peredvizhniki	1871 Stasov acclaims first Peredvizhniki exhibition 1871 Saltykov-Shchedrin on organisation and works of Peredvizhniki
1872	1872 World Exhibition in London 1872 Second exhibition of Peredvizhniki
1873	1873 Exhibition of works selected for Vienna World Exhibition 1873 Vereshchagin in London 1873 World exhibition in Vienna	1873 Stasov assesses Repin, Volga Barge Haulers 1873 Beavington Atkinson, An Art Tour to Russia		1873 Until 1874. Culmination of Populist 'Going to the people'
1874	1874 Third Peredvizhniki exhibition 1874 Posthumous Exhibition of Fedor Vasil'ev at Society for the Encouragement of the Artists 1874 Vereshchagin, Turkestan series in S-Pb	1874 Vereshchagin publishes rejection of Academy professorship 1874 Censorship causes newspapers to refuse to publish Stasov on Vereshchagin 1874 Vereshchagin and Stasov meet, and begin correspondence.	1874 Pavel Tret'iakov opens his gallery to the public 1874 Adrian Prakhov's inaugural lecture as Professor of Art History in University of St Petersburg 1874 Vereshchagin burns some of Turkestan series	1874 Establishment of Abramtsevo artists' colony by Savva and Elizaveta Mamontov 1874 Criticism of Academy forbidden and suspension of The Voice extended
1875	1875 Fourth Peredvizhniki exhibition	1875 Pchela first published 1875 Stasov publishes attack on Prakhov	1875 Prakhov begins teaching Art History at Academy
1876	1876 Fifth Peredvizhniki exhibition 1876 Annual Academy exhibition		1876 Society for Exhibitions of Works of Art exhibitions begin
1877	1877 Academy: Henryk Siemiradzki, Svetochi khristianstva (Torches of Nero).			1877 Until 1878. Russian-Turkish war in Balkans
1878	1878 Academy: works selected for Paris World exhibition 1878 World Exhibition in Paris 1878 Sixth Peredvizhniki exhibition	1878 Stasov on 1878 Peredvizhniki and Paris World exhibitions 1878 Prakhov suspended from Academy teaching
1879	1879 Seventh Peredvizhniki exhibition 1879 S-Pb: Hans Makart, Romeo and Juliet (Society for Exhibitions of Works of Art, third exhibition) 1879 London and Paris: Vasilii Vereshchagin	1879 Turgenev in Parisian press in support of Vereshchagin	1879 S-Pb: Art and Industry Museum opens
1880	1880 Academy, Mar-Apr: Personal exhibition of Mikhail Antokol'skii 1880 S-Pb: Vereshchagin exhibition 1880 S-Pb: Vereshchagin auction 1880 S-Pb: Kuindzhi	1880 Botkin on Ivanov	1880 Dostoevskii, Brat'ia Karamazovy (The Brothers Karamazov)
1881	1881 Ninth Peredvizhniki exhibition 1881 First exhibition of informal circle of Russian Watercolourists 1881 Vereshchagin in Vienna	1881 Ivan Kramskoi on Ivanov 1881 Khudozhestvennyi zhurnal begins	1881 Free admission to Tret'iakov Gallery	1881 1 Mar. Alexander II assassinated by terrorist, Alexander III to throne.
1882	1882 First all-Russian arts and industry exhibition	1882 Kramskoi on 'Russkie khudozhestvennye kritiki' 1882 Stasov on Russian national school	1882 Perov dies.
1883	1883 Eleventh Peredvizhniki exhibition 1883 April-May. Exhibition of Vereshchagin's Indian and Balkan Series in Moscow	1883 Stasov, 'Perov i Musorgskii' 1883 Stasov on Vereshchagin 1883 Journal Vestnik iziashchnykh iskusstv		1883 Measures taken against press criticism of Academy
1884
1885	1885 Thirteenth Peredvizhniki exhibition 1885 Vienna: Vereshchagin	1885 Stasov on art criticism and the public 1885 Stasov on Repin and Academy	1885 First provincial public museum in Saratov	1885 Calls for prosecution of newspaper Novosti 1885 Introduction of exhibition censorship
1886	1886 First travelling Academy exhibition	1886 Odessa press on Peredvizhniki 1886 Vereshchagin on art
1887	1887 Fifteenth Peredvizhniki exhibition 1887 London: Vereshchagin		1887 Official establishment of Society of Russian Watercolourists 1887 Repin leaves Peredvizhniki 1887 24 Mar. Kramskoi dies
1888	1888 Sixteenth Peredvizhniki exhibition 1888 Vereshchagin in Paris 1888 Vereshchagin in New York	1888 Heinrich Wölfflin, Renaissance und Barock
1889	1889 Seventeenth Peredvizhniki exhibition	1889 Journal Artist	1889 Major change in Board of Academy
1890	1890 Eighteenth Peredvizhniki exhibition 1890 Ge, Christ and Pilate suppressed		1890 Exhibition hall of Society for the Encouragement of the Arts opened 1890 Diaghilev and others join 'The Society of Self-Education' 1890 S-Pb Society of Artists formed 1890 New statutes for Peredvizhniki 1890 Revision of Academy statutes begins
1891	1891 Moscow, 15 May: first exhibition of St Petersburg Society of Artists 1891 S-Pb: Il'ia Repin 1891 S-Pb: Shishkin	1891 Joséphin 'Sâr' Péladan publishes 'Manifesto' and 'Rules of the Salon de la Rose + Crois'.
1892	1892 Moscow, Feb: Il'ia Repin 1892 Twentieth Peredvizhniki exhibition 1892 Paris, March. First exhibition of Symbolist Salon de la Rose + Crois	1892 Journal Russkii khudozhestvennyi arkhiv begins.	1892 Pavel Tret'iakov donates his and brother Sergei's collections and gallery to city of Moscow 1892 Merezhkovskii on Russian literature 1892 Max Nordau, Entartung (Degeneration) 1892 Establishment of Munich Secession
1893	1893 First exhibition of Moscow Association of Artists 1893 Academy: Shishkin 1893 21st Peredvizhniki exhibition	1893 Alexandre Benois's debut as art critic and historian 1893 Repin in defence of beauty	1893 Tret'iakov Gallery opens as public museum 1893 Princess Maria Tenisheva founds artists' colony in Talashkino, near Smolensk
1894		1894 Stasov's collected works (3 vols, S-Pb)	1894 New statute of Academy 1894 Moscow, 23 April - 1 May: First Congress of Russian Artists (ded. Pavel Tret'iakov) 1894 Stasov severs contact with Repin	1894 Alexander III dies. Nicholas II ascends throne
1895	1895 Moscow: Vereshchagin		1895 Establishment of Russian Museum in S-Pb
1896	1896 May, Nizhnii Novgorod: All-Russian Exhibition of Industry and Art 1896 S-Pb: Vereshchagin
1897	1897 First Academy spring exhibition 1897 S-Pb: Exhibition of German and English Watercolourists 1897 S-Pb: Exhibition of Scandinavian Artists	1897 Grabar', Upadok ili vozrozhdenie 1897 Leo Tolstoy, Chto takoe iskusstvo? 1897 Stasov on Repin	1897 Establishment of the Vienna Secession 1897 Diaghilev proposes formation of new society
1898	1898 S-Pb: Exhibition of Russian and Finnish Artists 1898 S-Pb, March. Russian Museum of Alexander III opens	1898 First issue of Mir iskusstva 1898 First issue of Iskusstvo i khudozhestvennaia promyshlennost' 1898 Inception of Secessionist journal Ver Sacrum (Vienna)	1898 Establishment of the Berlin Secession
1899	1899 S-Pb: first World of Art exhibition 1899 S-Pb: Viktor Vasnetsov 1899 Academy: Karl Briullov centenary exhibition	1899 Polemics between Repin and Diaghilev 1899 Stasov on World of Art 1899 Stasov on international exhibition 1899 Stasov in support of Repin	1899 Briullov centenary celebrations
1900	1900 Paris World exhibition		1900 Organising committee for World of Art exhibitions formed
1901	1901 Academy: third World of Art exhibition, and Levitan exhibition 1901 Moscow: The 36 1901 Vereshchagin in USA	1901 Khudozhestvennye sokrovishcha Rossii begins
1902	1902 March. Fourth exhibition of the journal World of Art 1902 S-Pb: Russian portraiture 1902 First Moscow exhibition of World of Art 1902 Moscow: Exhibition of Architecture and Industrial Art 1902 Vrubel', Metropol Hotel, Moscow	1902 Diaghilev on Dmitrii Levitskii 1902 Benois, History of Russian painting 1902 Diaghilev on Benois
1903	1903 Thirty-first Peredvizhniki exhibition 1903 Moscow: Union of Russian Artists		1903 The World of Art group and The 36 form new organisation. World of Art exhibitions end
1904	1904 S-Pb, February: New Society of Artists first exhibition 1904 Thirty-second Peredvizhniki exhibition 1904 Moscow Society of Artists eleventh exhibition 1904 Saratov: Crimson Rose exhibition 1904 S-Pb: Vereshchagin (posthumous)	1904 First issue of Vesy		1904 January (until 1905). Russo-Japanese war
1905	1905 S-Pb: Russian portrait exhibition	1905 Stasov, 'Itogi nashei portretnoi vystavki' 1905 Declaration 'The voice of artists' 1905 Dal'kevich on Russian Museum	1905 Beginning of year: World of Art discontinued	1905 S-Pb, January 9. 'Bloody Sunday' massacre triggers first Russian Revolution
1906	1906 Thirty-fourth Peredvizhniki exhibition 1906 Academy: spring exhibition 1906 S-Pb: World of Art 1906 Moscow Socety of Artists 1906 Russian exhibition in Paris 1906 Academy: Union of Russian Artists 1906 Thirty-fifth Peredvizhniki exhibition	1906 First issue of Zolotoe Runo 1906 Union of Russian Artists, Kartiny zhizni 1906 First issue of Adskaia pochta 1906 Discussion of individualism in Zolotoe Runo	1906 10 October. Stasov dies	1906 Censorship Statute ends preliminary press censorship
1907	1907 S-Pb: Nesterov 1907 Moscow, Feb: Borisov-Musatov (posthumous) 1907 Moscow: Union of Russian Artists 1907 S-Pb: New Society of Artists 1907 S-Pb Society of Artists 1907 Moscow Society of Artists 1907 Moscow: The Blue Rose 1907 Moscow: Venok (Stefanos)	1907 First issue of Starye gody	1907 Ballet Pavil'on Armidy
1908	1908 March: S-Pb: Borisov-Musatov (posthumous) 1908 S-Pb: Venok 1908 S-Pb: Contemporary Trends in Art 1908 Moscow: First Golden Fleece Salon 1908 Paris: Russian works 1908 Kiev: Link 1908 31st exhibition of Vienna Secession 1908 Moscow: Union of Russian Artists, 6th exhibition		1908 Paris: Diaghilev's Russian Seasons begin
1909	1909 S-Pb: Salon 1909 Moscow: second Golden Fleece salon 1909 S-Pb: 6th exhibition of New Society of Artists 1909 Polenov, Iz zhizni Khrista 1909 S-Pb: Impressionists exhibition 1909 S-Pb: Venok Stephanos 1909 S-Pb: German artists 1909 S-Pb: Trubetskoi, Alexander III 1909 Moscow: Lemercier gallery opened 1909 Moscow: third Golden Fleece salon 1909 Odessa: first major avant-garde exhibition in Russian Empire 1909 Moscow: Union of Russian Artists, 7th exhibition	1909 Kul'bin lecture on free art 1909 Elena Guro, Sharmanka 1909 First issue of Apollon 1909 Tasteven on 'Apollinism' 1909 Kul'bin lecture on new paths in art 1909 Benua on Union of Russian Artists 1909 Makovskii, Stranitsy khudozhestvennoi kritiki	1909 Denis in Moscow 1909 Artists leave Zolotoe Runo 1909 Soiuz molodezhi established