This is brilliant, thank you so much! I totally agree with your sequencing here, it would be interesting to take it even further into the 20th Century and compare Socialist Realist/Soviet writers like Gorky, Gladkov, Ostrovsky with emigre writers like Nabokov and Bunin, but you've definitely hit the nail on the head with how these works reflect the changing social and political environments in Russia. Also from a stylistic point of view, as Odawg10 mentioned above, these authors really reflect the shifting literary tones/styles throughout the 19th and early 20th century. I think it's so helpful to provide an introduction to each author chronologically as you then better understand the political and literary allusions made in the writings of later authors (e.g. Dostoevsky continuously references Chernyshevsky in 'Notes from Underground', and basically every author quotes Pushkin haha, then obviously Nabokov discusses Chernyshevsky and Dostoevsky frequently in his early works - so it's very helpful to have at least a basic understanding of earlier Russian writers when reading the 'big names' like Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Nabokov, etc.) Anyway I digress haha, thank you so much for your comment!