# My past and thoughts, vol. 1 (of 6)

Author: Herzen, Aleksandr, 1812-1870; Garnett, Constance, 1861-1946 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76599

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=My+past+and+thoughts%2C+vol.+1+%28of+6%29+Herzen&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

A few words about Herzen’s parentage will make his narrative more intelligible to the English reader. Herzen’s father, Ivan Yakovlyev, was a very wealthy nobleman belonging to one of the most aristocratic families of Russia. In 1811, at the age of forty-two, he married (so Brückner tells us in his _History of Russian Literature_) at Stuttgart a girl of sixteen, whose name was Henriette Haag, though she was always in Russia called Luise Ivanovna, as easier to pronounce. As he neglected to repeat the marriage ceremony in Russia, their son was there illegitimate. Yakovlyev is said to have given him the surname Herzen, because he was the ‘child of his heart.’

## Chapters

- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-1-of-6-76599/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-1-of-6-76599/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-1-of-6-76599/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-1-of-6-76599/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-1-of-6-76599/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-1-of-6-76599/chapters/28/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-1-of-6-76599/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-1-of-6-76599/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-1-of-6-76599/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-1-of-6-76599/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-1-of-6-76599/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-1-of-6-76599/chapters/26/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-1-of-6-76599/chapters/27/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-1-of-6-76599/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-1-of-6-76599/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-1-of-6-76599/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-1-of-6-76599/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 3.—(_Translator’s Note._)](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-1-of-6-76599/chapters/29/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-1-of-6-76599/chapters/19/index.md)
- [ill. The Senator was dead, the desolation about him was greater than](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-1-of-6-76599/chapters/15/index.md)
- [VOLUME I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-1-of-6-76599/chapters/1/index.md)
- [PART I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-1-of-6-76599/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I:—My Nurse and the _Grande Armée_—The Fire of](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-1-of-6-76599/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II:—The Talk of Nurses and of Generals—False](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-1-of-6-76599/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV:—Officials—Siberian Governors-General—A Rapacious](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-1-of-6-76599/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI:—The Kremlin Department—Moscow University—Our](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-1-of-6-76599/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V:—Details of Home Life—Eighteenth-Century People in](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-1-of-6-76599/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII:—The Tsarevitch at Vyatka—The Fall of](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-1-of-6-76599/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII:—The End of My Studies—The Schiller Period—Early](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-1-of-6-76599/chapters/6/index.md)