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Events relating to russia
The Prussians achieve the first blitzkrieg in their Seven Weeks' War defeat of the Austrians
The terms of the treaty of Prague, ending the Seven Weeks War, make plain the transfer of German leadership from Austria to Prussia
Dostoevsky publishes Crime and Punishment, a novel narrated by Raskolnikov, a St Petersburg student and murderer
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'
A revival of the Prussian Zollverein, or customs union, includes all the German states except Austria
Modest Mussorgsky composes his orchestral work St John's Night on the Bare Mountain, based on a story by Gogol
Dostoevsky publishes The Idiot, a novel about the simple-minded and truthful Prince Myshkin
Dmitry Mendeleyev reads to the Russian Chemical Society in St Petersburg his formulation of the periodic table
Otto von Bismarck adjusts the Prussian king's telegram from Ems in a way calculated to provoke the French
With public opinion in France outraged by the Ems telegram, the French government declares war on Prussia
French artist Claude Monet, fleeing from the Franco-Prussian War, arrives in London
Napoleon III is among 83,000 French prisoners captured by the Germans at Sedan in the Franco-Prussian war
The Prussian king, William I, is proclaimed emperor of a united Germany in the palace at Versailles
Troops of the new German empire march through Paris in a victory parade at the end of the Franco-Prussian war
The Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin splits the International Congress into rival camps at its meeting in the Hague
Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov has its premiere in St Petersburg
Mussorgsky composes Pictures at an Exhibition as a piece for piano in memory of an exhibition by the Russian painter Victor Hartmann
Leo Tolstoy publishes the first volume of his novel Anna Karenina, in which the heroine develops a fatal love for Count Vronsky
Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky begins an intense correspondence with a wealthy patron, Nadezhda von Meck
The ballet Swan Lake, with choreography by Julius Wenzel Reisinger to music by Tchaikovsky, has its premiere at the Bolshoi in Moscow
On a wave of jingoism Benjamin Disraeli sends six British ironclads, in support of Turkey, to confront the Russians near Istanbul
Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin, based on Pushkin's poem, has its premiere in Moscow
Russian composer Alexander Borodin writes In the Steppes of Central Asia as part of the silver jubilee celebrations for Alexander II
Dostoevsky publishes his novel The Brothers Karamazov, featuring the four sons of the depraved Feodor Pavlovich Karamazov
The first pogroms, or officially sanctioned attacks on Jews and their property, take place in Russia
