A Herzen Reader

The original Russian in the introduction's epigraph is "On uzhe ozhidaet svoikh chi- tatelei vperedi," Oct. 12, 1905, L. N. Tolstoi, Sobranie sochinenii v dvadtsati tomakh (Mos­cow: Khudozhestevnnaia literatura, 1960-65), 20:224, 506-7. On Oct. 18, 1905, Tolstoy wrote to Vladimir Stasov from Yasnaya Polyana, thanking him for the suggestion to re­read Herzen. In this turbulent year, Stasov had felt that Herzen's writings allowed him to once again "see the sun and warm himself' (Tolstoi, Sobranie sochinenii, 18:368-70).

Ramin Jahanbegloo, Conversations with Isaiah Berlin: Recollections of an Historian of Ideas (London: Phoenix, 1992), 175.

A. I. Gertsen, Sobranie sochinenii v tridtsati tomakh (Moscow: ANSSSR, 1954-66), 21:76.

Gertsen, Sobranie sochinenii, 21:300-303, 314; 26:13. The young radical Alexander Serno-Solovyovich complained that, while turning down the pleas from destitute emi­gres, Herzen could discuss socialism as he dined on caviar and champagne. As cited in: Martin Miller, The Russian Revolutionary Emigres (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986), 141.

Let 1:522-31, 540-42 (this refers to the first of five volumes chronicling Herzen's life and work; see the entry under Letopis' zhizni i tvorchestva A. I. Gertsena in the bibliography).

Let

3:19.

Introduction to the four-volume edition ofAlexander Herzen, My Past and Thoughts (London: Chatto and Windus, 1968), i:xxvi, xxxvii.

Herzen, My Past and Thoughts, 2:996-97, 3:1023-26.

Let 2:119-24.

Irena Zhelvakova, Gertsen (Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia, 2010), 386.

Gertsen, Sobranie sochinenii, 27:bk. 1, 265. The most recent account of the founda­tion of the Press can be found in Fran^oise Kunka, Alexander Herzen and the Free Russian Press in London 1852 to 1866

(Saarbrticken: LAP Lambert Academic Publishers, 2011).

Gertsen, Sobranie sochinenii, 2i:28.

Gertsen, Sobranie sochinenii, 27:bk. 2, 4i6.

Let 3:53.

Gertsen, Sobranie sochinenii, 27:bk. 2, 449.

Let 1:589; Let 2:20, 48. In a March 10 (Feb. 26) 1867 letter to Ogaryov from Italy, Herzen said that a visit from his friend would be welcome, but hardly possible, since he

had no set residence of his own (" 'u menia' net u menia"), Gertsen, Sobranie sochinenii, 29:bk. i, 58.

E. Lampert, Studies in Rebellion (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, i957), i79-

Herzen, My Past and Thoughts,

3:i44i, П453. This comment is reminiscent of his earlier criticism of the Petrashevtsy, a Petersburg progressive group arrested in 3:849 that included a young Dostoevsky: "They wanted to have harvests in return for the inten­tion to sow" (My Past and Thoughts, 2:978).

Andrei Root, Gertsen i traditsii Vol'noi russkoi pressy (Kazan: Izdatel'stvo Kazan- skogo universiteta, 200i), 2П4.

The letter was dated Feb. 2i, i870, and is cited in Michael Confino, Daughter of a Revolutionary: Natalie Herzen and the Bakunin-Nechayev Circle, trans. Hilary Sternberg and Lydia Bott (LaSalle, 1ll.: Library, i973), i63-64.

Isaiah Berlin, "A Revolutionary Without Fanaticism," in The Power of Ideas, ed. Henry Hardy (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000), 93.

Root, Gertsen i traditsii Vol'noi russkoi pressy, especially chapter 2, "Pervaia russkaia svobodnaia gazeta 'Kolokol' (i857-i867): Dvizhenie publitsisticheskoi mysli Gertsena," which carefully analyzes both the shorter editorials and the longer summary articles. Lampert compared Herzen, who "never said the same thing twice," to Bakunin, who constantly repeated himself (Lampert, Studies in Rebellion, i95).

Lampert, Studies in Rebellion, i87.

Let 3:255.

Gertsen, Sobranie sochinenii,

27:bk. i, 3i6-i8.

Let 3:595; Literaturnoe nasledstvo, vols. 4i-42:4i9-25.

Claudia Verhoeven, The Odd Man Karakozov: Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2009), 23.

Let 4:254.

Verhoeven, The Odd Man Karakozov, 2i, 45, 84, ii8.

Ibid., П78-79.

Let 2:3i6-i8.

Gertsen, Sobranie sochinenii, 29: 272.

32 . Gertsen, Sobranie sochinenii, 27:bk. 2, 449.

Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, The Spirit of Russia, trans. Eden Paul and Cedar Paul (London: George Allen and Unwin, i96i), i:384-85, 409, 426.