The former and the thoughts. Emigration. Herzen A.I.

“Past and Duma” - an autobiographical chronicle recognized by literary critics and historians of Russian prose by the main work of the author and one of the key literary works of the 19th century in the memoir genre.

This book included the fifth and sixth parts of the past and thoughts dedicated to Herzen's life after leaving Russia - first in France, then in Italy, again in France and, finally, in England, which had to be held for a long time become a new homeland for the author.

England, in whose capital political passions burned, because it was forced to settled by political emigrants of literally all conceivable degrees of radicality and all possible exercises and systems from many European countries...

the memoir component is interspersed Bright paintings of the political life of Western Europe of the stormy middle of the XIX century, philosophical interludes, essays and articles.