Some parts of Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time ( 1840 ) are also considered to belong in the gothic genre, but they lack the supernatural elements of the other Russian gothic stories.

* 1840 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer ( d. 1893 )

* 1840 – Dimitri Pisarev, Russian writer and social critic ( d. 1868 )

* Vasily Dokuchaev ( 1840 – 1903 ), patriach of Russian geography and founder of pedology.

* November 6 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer ( b. 1840 )

* Pyotr Iliych Tchaikovsky – ( 1840 – 1893 ), Russian composer

In the Russian Empire by 1840 the superior term, Μικρά Ρωσία, Little Rus, Rus Minora for Ruthenians become degradative and they began calling themselves Ukrainians for Ukrayina.

An Adyghe people | Adyghe strike on a Russian Military Fort which built over a Shapsug ian village that aim to free the Circassian Coast from the occupiers in 1840 during the Russian-Circassian War | Circassians Resistance

It has long been suggested that a Russian delegation visited the area to inspect the construction of the London and South Western Railway in 1840, and mistook the name of the station for the generic name of the building type.

The town is named after the island, which was named after Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel, a Russian explorer and the administrator of the Russian-American Company from 1840 to 1849.

She married a rich Russian tycoon, Anatole Demidov, on November 1, 1840 in Rome.

However the RMS founded Russia's first Conservatories in St Petersburg and in Moscow: the former trained the great Russian composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ( 1840 – 93 ), best known for ballets like Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker.

A Circassian strike on a Russian military fort built over a Shapsugs | Shapsugian village that aimed to free the coast from the occupiers during the Russian-Circassian War ( 1840 ).

File: CircassianCoastBattle. JPG | An Adyghe strike on a Russian Military Fort built over a Shapsugian village that aimed to free the Circassian Coast from the occupiers during the Russian-Circassian War, 22 March 1840

Initially, it presented only Russian works, but foreign composers entered the repertoire around 1840.

*( 1840 – 1893 ) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer whose works are among the most frequently performed in classical repertoire

Ivan Antonovich Kupreyanov (; 1800 – 1857 ), also spelled in English as Kupreanof, was the head of the Russian-American Company in Russian America from 1835 to 1840.

The island is named after Baron Ivan Antonovich Kupreianov, governor of the Russian American colonies from 1836 to 1840 ; the name was published in 1848 on a Russian Hydrographic Department chart as " Os ( trov ) Kupreyanova ".

It is named after Adolf Etolin, governor of the Russian American colonies from 1840 to 1845.

He was the adjutant for the governor of Russian America in 1834, and became governor (" Chief Manager ") of Russian America from 1840 to 1845.

( Etolin was subsequently governor of Russian America from 1840 to 1845.

In 1840 the village was handed to Russian field marshal Ivan Paskievich, who played a prominent role in the suppression of the November Uprising.

Italian literature's first modern novel, I Promessi Sposi ( The Betrothed ), by Alessandro Manzoni, further defined the standard by " rinsing " his Milanese " in the waters of the Arno " ( Florence's river ), as he states in the Preface to his 1840 edition.

Between May 1839 and February 1840, Fraser's published the work sometimes considered Thackeray's first novel, Catherine, originally intended as a satire of the Newgate school of crime fiction but ending up more as a rollicking picaresque tale in its own right.

In his 1840 novel Le Notaire, he wrote that a young person in the legal profession sees " the oily wheels of every fortune, the hideous wrangling of heirs over corpses not yet cold, the human heart grappling with the Penal Code.

But he laboriously revised The Betrothed in Tuscan-Italian, and in 1840 republished it in that form, with a historical essay, Storia della colonna infame, on details of the 17th century plague in Milan so important in the novel.

The protagonist's name points directly to Little Nell from Dickens ' 1840 novel The Old Curiosity Shop.

* One of the first was Cornelia Tuthill's 1840 novel Virginia Dare, or the Colony of Roanoke, in which Virginia marries a Jamestown settler.

* Émile Zola ( 1840 – 1902 ) wrote the novel Lourdes that deals with faith and healing, particularly of Marie de Guersaint.

* Poor Jack, novel by Frederick Marryat, 1840.

Like its predecessor, Au Bonheur des Dames focuses on Octave Mouret ( b. 1840 ), who at the end of the previous novel married Caroline Hédouin, the owner of a small silk shop.

During the previous seven years the popular taste had had turned toward the " service novel ", examples of which are Frank Mildmay ( 1829 ) by Frederick Marryat, Tom Cringle's Log ( 1895 ) by Michael Scott, The Subaltern ( 1825 ) by George Robert Gleig, Cyril Thornton ( 1827 ) by Thomas Hamilton, Stories of Waterloo ( 1833 ) by William Hamilton Maxwell, Ben Brace ( 1840 ) by Frederick Chamier and The Bivouac ( 1837 ), also by Maxwell.

* Horace, 1840 novel by George Sand

He returned to the public consciousness around 1840, when William Harrison Ainsworth wrote a novel entitled Jack Sheppard, with illustrations by George Cruikshank.

Le Compagnon du Tour de France was a novel written by George Sand in 1840.

Many of the writers in the Tanzimat period wrote in several different genres simultaneously: for instance, the poet Nâmık Kemal ( 1840 – 1888 ) also wrote the important 1876 novel İntibâh ( انتباه ; " Awakening "), while the journalist İbrahim Şinasi ( 1826 – 1871 ) is noted for writing, in 1860, the first modern Turkish play, the one-act comedy " Şair Evlenmesi " ( شاعر اولنمسى ; " The Poet's Marriage ").

He also returned to his focus on short stories rather than longer works of prose ; Poe's next published book after this, his only completed novel, was the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840.

* The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea, an 1840 novel by James Fenimore Cooper

" He is also mentioned in Poe's story " Mesmeric Revelation ", referring to Brownson's 1840 novel Charles Eldwood ; or, The Infidel Converted.

His life story was reconstructed in a short novel written in 1840 by Nestor Kukolnik and a play by Peter Smirnov staged at the Alexandrine Theatre in St. Petersburg.

John Ford's 1624 play The Sun's Darling is the first recorded mention of the related term " dunce table ," a table provided for duller or poorer students ; " dunce cap " appears first in the 1840 novel The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens.

He wrote a successful novel, Greyslaer ( 1840 ), based on the murder of Colonel Solomon P. Sharp by Jereboam O. Beauchamp, known as the Beauchamp – Sharp Tragedy — an event that several writers, including Thomas Holley Chivers and William Gilmore Simms, also fictionalized.

Michael Armstrong: Factory Boy began publication in 1840 and was the first industrial novel to be published in Britain.

His taste for art showed in 1840 and 1841, when he constructed Lichtenstein Castle on the sport of the by then completely ruined ancient castle made famous by Wilhelm Hauff's novel Lichtenstein.

Her story formed the basis of John Webster's drama, The White Devil, or The Tragedy of Paolo Giordano Ursini, Duke of Brachiano ( 1612 ), of Stendhal's novella Vittoria Accoramboni ( 1837-1839 ), of Ludwig Tieck's novel, Vittoria Accoramboni ( 1840 ) and of Robert Merle's novel l ' Idole ( 1987 ) published in English translation as Vittoria.