| January 29 (February 10) | The tsarist government issues an order exiling Lenin to East Siberia under police surveillance for three years. |
| February 13 (25) | Lenin is informed of his sentence to exile in East Siberia. |
| February 14 (26) | Lenin is released from remand imprisonment and allowed to remain in St. Petersburg until the evening of February 17 (March 1). |
| February 14-17 (February 26-March 1) | Lenin has a meeting in St. Petersburg with the other “old” League of Struggle members who have been released before being sent into exile and with “young” members. At a meeting of “old” and “young” League members Lenin severely criticises the “economism” trend that is beginning to appear among the “young” members. |
| February 17 (March 1) | Lenin leaves St. Petersburg for exile in Siberia via Moscow. |
| February 18-22 (March 2-6) | On his way to exile a halt is made In Moscow, where Lenin has permission to stay for a while with his mother. He stays two days longer than allowed by the police. |
| February 22 (March 6) | Lenin leaves Moscow for Siberia, where he is to live in exile. |
| March 4 (16) | Lenin arrives in Krasnoyarsk. |
| March 9-April 30 (March 21-May 12) | While in Krasnoyarsk Lenin studies problems relating to Russia's economic development, using for this purpose books in the private library of G. V. Yudin, a local merchant. |
| April-July | Lenin's Characterisation of Economic Romanticism is published in Novoye Slovo, issues 7-10. |
| April 30 (May 12) | Lenin leaves Krasnoyarsk via Minusinsk for the village of Shushenskoye, the place to which he has been exiled. |
| May 6 (18) | Lenin arrives in Minusinsk. |
| May 8 (20) | Lenin arrives in the village of Shushenskoye, Minusinsk Province, Yenisei Gubernia. |
| Summer and autumn | Lenin writes his pamphlet The New Factory Law autumn and the appendix to it. |
| September 27-28 (October 9-10) | Lenin travels to Minusinsk, where he makes the acquaintance of exiled members of the Narodnaya Volya and Narodnoye Pravo organisations. |
| September 29-October 4 (October 11-16) | From Minusinsk Lenin arrives in the village of Tesinskoye, where he spends five days among exiled Social-Democrats. |
| November | Lenin leaves Shushenskoye village and visits Minusinsk “without permission." |
| Second half of the year 1897 | Lenin writes the pamphlet The Tasks of the Russian Social-Democrats and the articles “The Handicraft Census of 1894-95 in Perm Gubernia and General Problems of 'Handicraft' Industry," “Gems of Narodnik Project-Mongering," and “The Heritage We Renounce." |
| 1897 | -- While in exile, Lenin maintains contact with the
leading bodies of the working-class movement in Russia and with the
Emancipation of Labour group abroad, and also corresponds with
Social-Democrats in other places of exile; he continues preparations
for his book The Development of Capitalism in Russia.
-- Lenin gives legal advice to the peasants of Shushenskoye village and the surrounding region, and enjoys great prestige among them. |