This PowerPoint illustrates the situation of the lower classes in Russia after the Emancipation through art and presents early Russian radicalism as background for discussion of Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground.

1. The Wanderers (Peredvizhniki), 1888

2. Volga Boatman Ilya Repin, 1873

3. Repair Work on the Railway Konstantin Savitsky, 1874

4. Stoker Nikolai Yaroshenko, 1878

5. Troika: Apprentices Hauling Water Vasily Perov, 1886

6. Life is Everywhere Nikolai Yaroshenko, 1888

7. Poor People Collecting Coal in an Abandoned Pit Nikolai Kasatkin, 1894

8. Barge Haulers Alexei Korin, 1897

9. Family of a Worker Nikolai Kasatkin, 1890s

10. Washerwomen Abram Arkhipov, c. 1901

11. Rational Egoism

12. Nikolai Chernyshevsky 1828-89

13. Nihilism

14. Dmitry Pisarev, 1860s 1840-68

15. Student Nikolai Yaroshenko, 1881

16. Female Student Nikolai Yaroshenko, 1881

17. Nihilist Student Ilya Repin, 1883

18. Arrest of a Nihilist

19. Death of Bazarov

20. Populism

21. Alexander Herzen 1812-70

22. Alexander Herzen Nikolai Ge, 1867

23. Peter Lavrov 1823-1900

24. Mikhail Bakunin, c. 1860 1814-76

25. The Philanthropists Vladimir Makovsky, 1874

26. A Teacher in a Village Vladimir Makovsky, 1897

27. The Condemned , 1872 Vladimir Makovsky

28. Terrorism

29. Dmitry Karakozov Ilya Repin, 1866

30. Sergei Nechaev, 1870 1847-82

31. Land and Freedom (Founded 1876)

33. Prisoner Nikolai Yaroshenko, 1878

34. Vera Zasulich 1849-1919

35. Dining Room of the Winter Palace after Assassination Attempt, 1879

36. The Assassination of Alexander II

41. Alexander II on His Deathbed

42. Alexander II on His Deathbed Konstantin Makovsky, 1881

43. Execution of Five Members of The People’s Will April 3, 1881

46. Revolutionary Meeting Ilya Repin, 1883

47. They Didn’t Expect Him Ilya Repin, 1888

48. Arrest of a Propagandist Ilya Repin, 1892

49. Fyodor Dostoevsky, c. 1841

50. Mock Execution of the Petrashevtsy, 1849

51. Omsk Penal Colony

52. Dostoevsky, 1862

53. Dostoevsky, 1863

54. Wiesbaden Casino, Germany

55. Fyodor Dostoevsky Vasily Perov, 1872

56. Dostoevsky, 1879

58. Crystal Palace, 1851

59. Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851

60. Dostoevsky Monument, Moscow