TIMELINE+1800's+THE+FACE+OF+RUSSIA

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***The links throughout this page will direct you to the PBS website of the Face of Russia's timeline. In order to find the events listed below, you need to click on the portion of the timeline between 1800 and 2000 and the events can then be seen and clicked on for more details. **  The website on [|The Face of Russia] gives plenty of useful background information that can aide in ones comprehension of the history behind //The Brothers Karamazov//. During the first half of the 1800’s in Russia, many important events transpired that most likely influenced the writings of Fyodor Dostoevsky.  In 1812, [|Napoleon and his French army invaded Russia]. After some devastating battles, Alexander I, Tsar of Russia at the time, did not surrender and consequentially, Moscow burned to the ground. The harsh Russian winter was disastrous for Napoleon and his army.  After these wars, Tsar Alexander became much more of a conservative ruler. The people of Russia were upset with the changes he enforced and it eventually lead to the [|Decembrist Rebellion] of 1825. This revolt was unorganized and was surprisingly led by army officers from the elite social class. Their attempt was unsuccessful, and led to their exiling from Russia.  It took a large portion of the 1800’s to build the [|Church of Christ the Savior]in Moscow. It was culturally significant because it was the largest church in all of Russia and it was a symbol of the religion of the city and country.  

Another culturally significant part of Russia’s history was the Bronze Horseman and [|Pushkin’s poem]. This poem was an example of Russian literature coming to life, along with the humanistic movement. Humanists were people who believed in the dignity and worth of all people based on the ability to determine right and wrong by appealing to universal human qualities. His poem, shown below, shows the new found nationalism of the people of Russia and how they feel proud of their great leader, Peter the Great.  // Wherever fate decrees that we must go, Wherever fortune leads us by the hand, We’re still the same: the world a foreign land, Our mother country—Tsarskoye Selo //  <span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; display: block; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal;">The literature of Russia further developed with [|Nikolai Gogol’s] writings and stories. When he arrived in Saint Petersburg in 1828, he brought with him terrifying stories of the peasants. He is said to have brought stories of “little sprites and demons of the rural and demons of the rural imagination” into the big city of Saint Petersburg. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">If you can understand the important concepts about how Russian culture and politics changed during this time, the ideas presented in Dostoevsky’s book will hopefully be easier to understand because of the circumstances surrounding the characters of the book. This is why this particular website is helpful whilst reading this novel.