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This book comprises the first two parts of Herzen’s autobiography, My Past and Thoughts, one of the greatest monuments of Russian literatura, comparable to the major works of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Turgenev. Herzen begins with his nurse’s account of Napoleon’s occupation of Moscow in 1812 and continues through his solitary boyhood and close friendship with his cousin Nick Ogarëv, his days at Moscow University, and his eventual imprisonment for his socialist beliefs. The book ends with his adventures in exile which are vividly recounted and display the rich observation of detail that make Herzen’s work so compelling.

Alexander Ivanovich Herzen 1812 – 21 January 1870) was a Russian writer and thinker known as the “father of Russian socialism” and one of the main fathers 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.