Authors, Russian -- Biography
This volume concludes the ‘Memoirs of Herzen.’ Nothing in the complete Russian edition has been omitted except two or three pages, which are practically repetition of earlier passages, and a brief section, Aphorismata, the humour of which has so evaporated with the lapse of ti...
This volume concludes the ‘Memoirs of Herzen.’ Nothing in the complete Russian edition has been omitted except two or three pages, which are practically repetition of earlier pa...
4. volume v. pp. 169-175, and was stranded in Sweden.“Bakunin went to Stockholm to complain of the captain’s treachery. He heard that the King’s brother was a very cultured and liberal man, and hoped with his support to force the...
5. volume v. p. 115.) Soon afterwards Garibaldi’s visit took place, as“After being a year in Teddington we spent a summer by the sea at Bournemouth. Malwide von Meysenbug joined us there with Herzen’s daughters. This was the last time we were all...
6. Letter 1And so, dear friend,[26] you will positively go no further, you want to rest amidst the rich autumn harvest, in shady parks, languidly ruffling their leaves after the long, hot...
7. Letter 2Apropos of Mazzini. A few months ago the first volume of his collected works appeared. Instead of a preface or notes, Mazzini connected the articles written by him at various ti...
8. Letter 3... Phew, what a disgusting summer! Cold, darkness, sleet, continual winds, constant irritation of the nerves and also of the membrane of the nose; and all that has been going o...
9. Letter 4Please don’t be angry with me (it was not the landowner who said that to me, but I who say it to you) for so continually wandering from the point. Parentheses are my joy and my...
10. Letter 5In the early days of my youth I was struck by a French novel which I have not met since; it was called _Arminius_. Possibly it has no great merits, but at the time it had a grea...
11. Letter 6We stopped at the reflection that we must not be angry with squirrels for losing their fur, nor at the winter for following the summer every year. To recognise the inevitable is...
12. Letter 7Six days for labour and the seventh for rest. Moses and Proudhon were right to defend the Sabbath day. Monotonous work is terribly exhausting. A man must have periodical pauses,...
13. Letter 8‘_Halte-là! Stop!_’ was said to me this time, not by a lunatic, but, quite the contrary, by a very sane gentleman who walked into my room with a number of the _Bell._ in his han...
14. Letter 1Instead of a letter, dear friend, I am sending you a dissertation, and an unfinished one too. After our conversation I read over again Pisarev’s article on Bazarov, which I had...
15. Letter 2What has been leaves an imprint by means of which science sooner or later restores the past in its fundamental features. All that is lost is the particular atmosphere in which i...