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| 1825 |
| | | A December uprising in St Petersburg ends when troops fire on the crowd, but the 'Decembrists' become revolutionary martyrs | |
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| 1827 |
| | | Britain, France and Russia, supporting Greek independence, defeat the Turkish and Egyptian fleets at Navarino | |
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| 1831 |
| | | Russian poet Alexander Pushkin publishes a grand historical drama, Boris Godunov | |
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| 1833 |
| | | Alexander Pushkin publishes a novel in verse, Eugene Onegin | |
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| 1834 |
| | | Alexander Pushkin publishes his best-known short story, The Queen of Spades | |
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| 1836 |
| | | The Inspector General, a farce by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol satirising Russian offialdom, has tsar Nicholas I in the audience for the premiere | |
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| 1837 |
| | | Alexander Pushkin dies from a stomach wound received in a duel with his brother-in-law, Georges d'Anthès | |
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| 1842 |
| | | The publication of the first part of the satirical novel Dead Souls, by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, proves a sensation in Russia | |
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| 1844 |
| | | The Russian tsar, Nicholas I, calls Turkey 'the sick man of Europe' | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky undergoes a mock execution, after being sentenced to death for revolutionary activities against tsar Nicholas I | |
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