Herzen A.I. (1812-1870), revolutionary publicist

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HERZEN Alexander Ivanovich (1812-1870), revolutionary, publicist, writer, philosopher. He graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at Moscow University (1833). He came to St. Petersburg for the first time in December 1839, lived in Serapinsky Hotel at 7 Tsarskoselsky Avenue (today 20 Moskovsky Avenue) and in London Hotel (1 Nevsky Prospect). After taking service at the Chancellory for the Ministry of Internal Affairs he appeared in the capital again in May 1840. After a short stay at the Demout Hotel and the apartment of A.A. Orlov and P.I. Orlov (3 Kazanskaya Street) Herzen settled at the house of Lerche (25 Bolshaya Morskaya Street; memorial plaque) with his wife and son and soon entered the circle of the Petersburg intelligentsia (K.I. Arsenyev, V.F. Odoevsky, I.I. Panaev et al.), became friends with V.G. Belinsky, started working for Otechestvennye Zapiski journal. In June 1841, he was exiled from St. Petersburg to Novgorod for an abrasive comment on capital police outrages in a letter to his father. In October 1846 Herzen visited St. Petersburg for the last time, he stayed at the apartment of Panaev and N.A. Nekrasov (19 Fontanka River Embankment), met F.M. Dostoevsky, I.A. Goncharov, A.V. Nikitenko, A.A. Kraevsky, V.R. Zotov, V.A. Sollogub, A.L. Witberg et al. In 1847 Herzen left Russia forever. He founded Free Russian Typography in 1853; published Polyarnaya zvezda almanac together with N.P. Ogarev (1855-68), Kolokol newspaper (1857-67), etc., supported relations with the revolutionary movement in St. Petersburg (see Land and Liberty Organisation in the 1860s). Herzen's name was given to the Pedagogical University in 1920 (today Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University).

Reference: Перкаль М. К. Герцен в Петербурге. Л., 1971; Пирумова Н. М. Александр Герцен - революционер, мыслитель, человек. М., 1989; Герцен и современность: Материалы из альм. Pro Fribourg (1996. № 113), посвящ. А. И. Герцену. СПб., 1996.

A. D. Margolis. Arsenyev Konstantin Ivanovich
Belinsky Vissarion Grigorievich
Dostoevsky Fedor Mikhailovich
Goncharov Ivan Alexandrovich
Herzen Alexander Ivanovich
Kraevsky Andrey Alexandrovich
Lerche
Nekrasov Nikolay Alexeevich
Nikitenko Alexander Vasilievich
Odoevsky Vladimir Fedorovich
Ogarev Nikolay Platonovich
Panaev Ivan Ivanovich
Sollogub Vladimir Alexandrovich
Witberg Alexander Lavrovich
Zotov Vladimir Rafailovich
Bolshaya Morskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 25
Fontanka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 19
Kazanskaya Street/Saint Petersburg, city, house 3
Moskovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 20
Nevsky prospect/Saint Petersburg, city, house 1
Перкаль М. К. Герцен в Петербурге. Л., 1971
Герцен и современность: Материалы из альм. "Pro Fribourg" (1996. N 113), посвящ. А. И. Герцену. СПб.
Пирумова Н. М. Александр Герцен - революционер, мыслитель, человек. М., 1989 Otechestvennye Zapiski (Notes of the Fatherland), journal
Polyarnaya Zvezda (The Polar Star), almanac
Zemlya i Volya (Land and Liberty) of 1860s
Pedagogical University