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| 1900 |
| | | Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya is directed by Stanislavsky at the Moscow Art Theatre | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Lenin and comrades launch in Munich a radical newspaper, Iskra ('the spark') | |
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| 1900 |
| | | The Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov keeps dogs alive almost indefinitely by severely curtailing their bodily functions | |
|  | Five experimental dogs in Pavlov's laboratory
Wellcome Library, London
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| 1901 |
| | | Sergei Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto gives him renewed confidence after the disaster of his First Symphony in 1897 | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters has its premiere at the Moscow Art Theatre, directed by Stanislavsky | |
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| 1902 |
| | | In his pamphlet What is to be done? Lenin argues for early action to promote revolution | |
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| 1902 |
| | | Maxim Gorky's play The Lower Depths is performed at the Moscow Art Theatre | |
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| 1903 |
| | | Lenin's supporters become known as the Bolsheviks ('majority') as opposed to the Mensheviks ('minority') after a split at the party's Second Congress | |
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| 1904 |
| | | Anton Chekhov's last play, The Cherry Orchard, is staged by Stanislavsky just a few months before the author's death | |
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| 1904 |
| | | Alexander Scriabin completes his Third Symphony, The Divine Poem, which is given its first performance in Paris in 1905 | |
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