# My past and thoughts, vol. 3 (of 6)

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

Genre: Authors, Russian -- Biography

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78336

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=My+past+and+thoughts%2C+vol.+3+%28of+6%29+Herzen&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

As I begin to publish yet another part of _My Past and Thoughts_, I pause in hesitation at the fragmentariness of my narratives, my pictures, and the running commentary of my reflections. There is less external unity about them than about those of the earlier parts. I cannot weld them into one. In filling in the gaps, it is very easy to give the whole thing a different background and a different lighting—the truth of the period would be lost. _My Past and Thoughts_ is not an historical monograph, but the reflection of historical events on a man who has accidentally been thrown into contact with them. That is why I have decided to leave my disconnected chapters as they were, stringing them...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 42](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-3-of-6-78336/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 38](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-3-of-6-78336/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 37](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-3-of-6-78336/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 40](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-3-of-6-78336/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 41](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-3-of-6-78336/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 36](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-3-of-6-78336/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 39](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-3-of-6-78336/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 35](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-3-of-6-78336/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 34](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-3-of-6-78336/chapters/3/index.md)
- [PART V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-3-of-6-78336/chapters/2/index.md)
- [VOLUME III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-past-and-thoughts-vol-3-of-6-78336/chapters/1/index.md)