Alexandre Herzen
Alexandre Ivanovitch Herzen (March 25th/April 6th 1812 with Moscow - January 9th/January 21st 1870 with Paris) was a philosopher, writer and Russian publicity agent. It is known like the father of Russian socialism . He is regarded as an inspirer of the political climate which led to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861.
Its autobiography Last and meditations reveal an aristocratic education as well as an early sensitivity to the revolutionary ideas.
Herzen is the illegitimate son of a Russian general Ivan Yakovlev and a reader of Catherine of Wurtemberg (wife of king de Westphalie Jerome brother of the Napoleon emperor 1st) loved sincerely him, from where the name Herzen invented at the time of its birth: " who comes from the coeur" (of German " Herz" , the heart). It was born in Moscow during the battle from Borodino, and its father, after a personal interview with Napoleon, and charged to transmit a message for the Tsar, could cross the French lines (not without running some dangers) with the infant.
The " coeur" of Herzen a banishment with Perm and Viatka (1834/38) was worth to him, then with Novgorod (1841). It settles in Paris in 1847, where it collaborates with Proudhon, it saw there the events of 48 and dies there right before the Commune. It left for London in 1852. Then lived between Geneva, Nice and Paris. But, patriot, Herzen were mainly occupied to fight the mode tsarist by his articles in the pole star (1857-65) or the Bell (1857-65). In spite of the censure, its articles had a great impact in Russia. Let us quote its political works:
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On the development of the revolutionary ideas in Russia (1851)
- Russian People and socialism (1855)
- Which is guilty? (Romance, 1845-47)
- Russian People and socialism (1855)
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