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The Romantic Exiles

On September 1, 2010 By nick2209In books, byron, herzen, politics1 Comment

I happened to espy E.H. Carr's book The Romantic Exiles (1933), which tells the story of the lives of certain 19thC Russian exiles, in my favourite second-hand bookshop in Gateway-of-Fleet, and was delighted to be able to buy it. My primary interest was in the private life of Alexander Herzen but the book turned out to be of much …

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A Brief Introduction to Alexander Herzen

On November 5, 2009January 7, 2010 By nick2209In books, herzen1 Comment

I have been reading over the past few months Alexander Herzen's My Past and Thoughts - or, more accurately, an abridgement of My Past and Thoughts. It is a book about which I could,  and probably will, write at inordinate length. Herzen is a companion for life. But I wanted to start by attempting to explain why I …

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