HISTORY THROUGH TIMEPanchronology
Events, people and places in one sequence.
1703
Foundation of Saint Petersburg
The fortress was founded on Zayachy Island.
Event source1769
Birth of Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Ajaccio, Corsica.
Event source1783
Founding of the Russian Academy
An institution for studying Russian and compiling a dictionary.
Event source1799
Birth of Alexander Pushkin
Moscow; the date uses the Gregorian calendar.
Event source1804
Napoleon becomes Emperor of the French
The beginning of the imperial period.
Event source1811
Pushkin enters the Lyceum
The beginning of six years of study at Tsarskoye Selo.
Event source1812
Battle of Borodino
26 August in the Julian calendar.
Event source1814
First poem in print
To a Poet Friend appeared in Vestnik Evropy.
Event source1821
Death of Napoleon
Longwood, Saint Helena.
Event source1824
Exile at Mikhailovskoye
Pushkin lives at his mother’s estate until 1826.
Event source1827
Kiprensky paints Pushkin
The poet’s portrait, now in the Tretyakov Gallery.
Event source1831
Marriage of Pushkin and Goncharova
Alexander and Natalia begin their married life.
Event source1833
The Bronze Horseman
Composition of the Petersburg poem.
Event source1836
The Captain’s Daughter
Pushkin’s prose work.
Event source1837
Death of Alexander Pushkin
Saint Petersburg, two days after the duel.
Event source