The Shooting Party

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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov born on 17 January at Taganrog, a port on the Sea of Azov, the third son of Pavel Yegorovich Chekhov, a grocer, and Yevgeniya Yakovlevna, née Morozova

1861 Emancipation of the serfs by Alexander II. Formation of revolutionary Land and Liberty Movement

1862 Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons

1863–4 Polish revolt. Commencement of intensive industrialization; spread of the railways; banks established; factories built. Elective District Councils (zemstvos) set up; judicial reform Tolstoy’s The Cossacks (1863)

1865 Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1864) by Leskov, a writer much admired by Chekhov

1866 Attempted assassination of Alexander II by Karakozov Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment

1867 Emile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin

1868 Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot

Chekhov begins to attend Taganrog Gymnasium after wasted year at a Greek school

1869 Tolstoy’s War and Peace

1870 Municipal government reform

1870–71 Franco-Prussian War

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