March 11 — the first banknotes in Canada were printed.
May 14 — on the pages of the magazine "Biblioteka dlya chteniya" ("Library for Reading"), "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish" by A. S. Pushkin was published; it had been written during the Boldino Autumn of 1833. It was based on a plot that became widely known in the folklore of many peoples, but was fully transferred by the author onto Russian folk ground.
The impetus for creating this Pushkin work was a meeting with V. I. Dal in Orenburg, when, on the way to the Berdskaya settlement, Pushkin told his companion a tale about George the Brave and the wolf, later adapted and printed by Dal, and Dal in return told him the plot about the fisherman and the fish.
A month later, the poet would send Dal in Orenburg the manuscript of his tale with the inscription: "Yours from yours! To the storyteller Cossack of Lugansk — storyteller Alexander Pushkin".
December 1 — the first book of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen was printed.