Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen was a major Russian pro-Western writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism". He is held responsible for creating a political climate leading to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. His autobiography "My Past and Thoughts", written with grace, energy, and ease, is often considered the best specimen of that genre in Russian literature. Wikipedia
...ALEXANDER II AND HIS TIMES A Narrative History of Russia in the Age of Alexander II, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky (with links to hundreds of images and other... www.emich.edu/public/history/moss/
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The Russian radical writer and philosopher Alexander Herzen loved Rome for its warmth and spontaneity, but he was a little chagrined to find himself there when the revolution of 1848 erupted in Paris, seven hundred miles away. www.newyorker.com/printables/critics/061030crat_atlarge
