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| 1856 |
| | | The treaty of Paris ends the Crimean War, limiting Russia's special powers in relation to Turkey | |
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| 1857 |
| | | Russian exile Alexander Herzen, publishes in London a radical newspaper called Kolokol (The Bell) | |
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| 1858 |
| | | Under the Treaty of Aigun, Russia wins from China the valuable Pacific coastline down to Vladivostok | |
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| 1861 |
| | | After four years of consultation, Alexander II issues a decree freeing Russia's millions of serfs | |
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| 1862 |
| | | Dostoevsky publishes Notes from the House of the Dead, a semi-autobiographical novel about life in a Siberian labour camp | |
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| 1864 |
| | | Dostoevsky publishes Notes from Underground, the bitter memories of a retired civil servant that is often described as the first existentialist novel | |
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| 1865 |
| | | Leo Tolstoy publishes the first volume of his epic novel War and Peace, following the lives of several aristocratic families during the Napoleonic wars | |
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| 1866 |
| | | Dostoevsky publishes Crime and Punishment, a novel narrated by Raskolnikov, a St Petersburg student and murderer | |
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| 1867 |
| | | Secretary of state William Seward negotiates a price of $7.2 million for the purchase of Alaska from Russia, in a deal that some consider 'Seward's Folly' | |
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| 1867 |
| | | Modest Mussorgsky composes his orchestral work St John's Night on the Bare Mountain, based on a story by Gogol | |
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