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| 1877 |
| | | The ballet Swan Lake, with choreography by Julius Wenzel Reisinger to music by Tchaikovsky, has its premiere at the Bolshoi in Moscow | |
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| 1879 |
| | | Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin, based on Pushkin's poem, has its premiere in Moscow | |
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| 1880 |
| | | Russian composer Alexander Borodin writes In the Steppes of Central Asia as part of the silver jubilee celebrations for Alexander II | |
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| 1880 |
| | | Dostoevsky publishes his novel The Brothers Karamazov, featuring the four sons of the depraved Feodor Pavlovich Karamazov | |
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| 1881 |
| | | The first pogroms, or officially sanctioned attacks on Jews and their property, take place in Russia | |
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| 1881 |
| | | Russia's reforming tsar, Alexander II, is killed by hand-made grenades thrown at his carriage in St Petersburg | |
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| 1887 |
| | | Alexander Borodin dies without finishing his opera Prince Igor (completed later by Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov) | |
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| 1887 |
| | | Lenin's elder brother Alexander, while still a student, is executed for his part in a plot to assassinate the tsar, Alexander III | |
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| 1890 |
| | | Sleeping Beauty, with choreography by Petipa to music by Tchaikovsky, has its premiere in St Petersburg | |
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| 1892 |
| | | The Nutcracker, with choreography by Lev Ivanov to music by Tchaikovsky, has its premiere in St Petersburg | |
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