The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen, I

About this eBook

Author

Herzen, Aleksandr, 1812-1870

Title

My past and thoughts, vol. 1 (of 6) : The memoirs of Alexander Herzen

Original Publication

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924, copyright 1928.

Credits

Richard Tonsing, Lukas Bystricky, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

Language

English

LoC Class

DK: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Russia, Former Soviet Republics, Poland

Subject

Socialists -- Soviet Union -- Biography

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 76599

Release Date

July 31, 2025

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MY PAST AND THOUGHTS THE MEMOIRS OF ALEXANDER HERZEN THE AUTHORISED TRANSLATION TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BY CONSTANCE GARNETT VOLUME I
2. 2.TRANSLATOR’S NOTE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.PART I NURSERY & UNIVERSITY (1812–1835) — Chapter 1 My Nurse and the Grande Armée —The Fire of Moscow—My Father with Napoleon—General Ilovaisky—Travelling with the French Prisoners—The Patriotism of C. Calot—The Common Management of the Property—Dividing it—The Senator — Chapter 2 The Talk of Nurses and of Generals—False Position—Russian Encyclopaedists—Boredom—The Maids’ Room and the Servants’ Hall—Two Germans—Lessons and Reading—The Catechism and the Gospel — Chapter 3 The Death of Alexander I. and the Fourteenth of December—Moral Awakening—The Terrorist Bouchot—My Kortcheva Cousin — Chapter 4 Nick and the Sparrow Hills — Chapter 5 Details of Home Life—Eighteenth-Century People in Russia—A Day in our House—Visitors and Habitués —Sonnenberg—The Valet and Others — Chapter 6 The Kremlin Department—Moscow University—Our Set—The Chemist—The Malov Affair—The Cholera—Filaret—V. Passek—General Lissovsky—The Sungurov Affair — Chapter 7 The End of my Studies—The Schiller Period—Early Youth and Bohemianism—Saint-Simonism and N. Polevoy — Appendix A. Polezhaev
5. 5.PART II PRISON & EXILE (1834–1838) — Chapter 8 A Prediction—Ogaryov’s Arrest—A Fire—A Moscow Liberal—M. F. Orlov—The Graveyard — Chapter 9 Arrest—An Impartial Witness—The Office of the Pretchistensky Police Station—A Patriarchal Judge — Chapter 10 Under the Watch Tower—The Lisbon Policeman—The Incendiaries — Chapter 11 Krutitsky Barracks—Gendarmes’ Tales—Officers — Chapter 12 The Investigation—Golitsyn Senior—Golitsyn Junior—General Staal—Sokolovsky—Sentence — Chapter 13 Exile—The Mayor at Pokrovo—The Volga—Perm — Chapter 14 Vyatka—The Office and Dining-room of His Excellency—K. Y. Tyufyaev — Chapter 15 Officials—Siberian Governors-General—A Rapacious Police-Master—An Accommodating Judge—A Roasted Police-Captain—A Tatar Missionary—A Boy of the Female Sex—The Potato Terror, etc. — Chapter 16 Alexander Lavrentyevitch Vitberg — Chapter 17 The Tsarevitch at Vyatka—The Fall of Tyufyaev—I am transferred to Vladimir—The Police-Captain at the Posting-Station — Chapter 18 The Beginning of my Life at Vladimir

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