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Alexander Herzen
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen was a Russian writer and thinker known as the precursor of Russian socialism and one of the main precursors of agrarian populism. With his writings, many composed while exiled in London, he attempted to influence the situation in Russia, contributing to a political climate that led to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. He published the important social novel Who is t…
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culture · Russian author and revolutionary (1812–1870) · philosopher · writer · journalist · autobiographer · literary critic · prose writer · opinion journalist · pedagogue · politician · teacher · also Alexander Herzen, A. H., Gertsen, Aleksandr Herzen, Alexander Ivanovich Herzen, Herzen
Born 25 March 1812 · Died 9 January 1870 · Q201221
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1934· 1 entry
“The Tragedy of the Political Exiles”
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1870· 2 entries
Died 1870-01-09.
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Herzen was almost forgotten
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1864· 1 entry
Herzen returned to Geneva and, after some time, went to Paris where he died in 1870 of tuberculosis complications
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1861· 1 entry
Escalated his demands regarding constitutional rights, common ownership of land, and government by the people
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1860· 1 entry
Levitsky would immortalize Herzen in a famous photograph
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1857· 1 entry
Herzen became excited by the possibility of social change under Alexander II, "A new life is unmistakably boiling up in Russia, even the government is being carried away by it"
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1856· 1 entry
Was joined in London by his old friend Nikolay Ogarev
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1853· 2 entries
His Free Russian Press, the fortunes of which he gave an interesting account in a book published (in Russian) in 1863, he published a large number of Russian works, all against the system of government prevailing in Russ
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Tried to influence the situation in Russia and improve the situation of the Russian peasantry he idolized
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1852· 1 entry
Natalia died from tuberculosis, and Alexander left Geneva for London, where he settled for many years
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1850· 1 entry
Two works appeared, translated from the Russian manuscripts, From the Other Shore and Lettres de France et d'Italie
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1847· 3 entries
Alexander emigrated with his wife, mother and children, to Italy never to return to Russia
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But his newsletter Kolokol, published in London from 1857 to 1867, was widely read
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Published in Russian periodicals the stories which were afterwards collected and printed in London in 1854, under the title of Prervannye Rasskazy (Interrupted Tales)
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1846· 1 entry
His father died, leaving him a large inheritance
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1842· 1 entry
With the publication of an essay, in Russian, on Dilettantism in Science, under the pseudonym of Iskander, the Turkish form of his Christian name
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1839· 1 entry
Was set free and returned to Moscow in 1840, where he met literary critic Vissarion Belinsky, who was strongly influenced by him
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1837· 1 entry
Eloped with his cousin Natalya Zakharina, secretly marrying her
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1835· 1 entry
Banished to Vyatka, now Kirov, in north-eastern European Russia
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1834· 1 entry
Herzen and his lifelong friend Nikolay Ogarev were arrested and tried for attending a festival where verses by Sokolovsky, that were uncomplimentary to the tsar, were sung
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1812· 1 entry
Born 1812-03-25.
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