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Alexander Ivanovich Herzen

  • Александр Иванович Герцен
  • Alexander Herzen
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Herzen, Alexander Ivanovich
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Person
Gender
Male
Date of birth
1812-04-06
Place of birth
Moscow
Date of death
1870-01-21
Place of death
Paris

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Alexander Ivanovich Herzen (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Ге́рцен, romanized: Aleksándr Ivánovich Gértsen; 6 April [O.S. 25 March] 1812 – 21 January [O.S. 9 January] 1870) was a Russian writer and thinker known as the precursor of Russian socialism and one of the main precursors of agrarian populism (being an ideological ancestor of the Narodniki, Socialist-Revolutionaries, Trudoviks and the agrarian American Populist Party). 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 to Blame? (1845–46). His autobiography, My Past and Thoughts (written 1852–1870), is often considered one of the best examples of that genre in Russian literature.

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Russian author, philosopher, and revolutionary.

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