Herzen
Britishnoun
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Marx’s Neue Rheinische Zeitung newspaper even spread the rumor that Herzen was a Russian government spy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
In the Russian original, Herzen recalled the “falsely kind gaze” of the chief of the “terrifying police” that was “outside and above the law and which could interfere into everything.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
In the 20th century, Vladimir Lenin would laud Herzen for “raising the banner of revolution” against an oppressive czarist regime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The Coast of Utopia was a massive trilogy about the 19th Century Russian liberal thinker, Alexander Herzen: coolly received at the National Theatre in London, it was a huge success in New York.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
And such men as our Herzen, Stankievich, Bylinsky, were no fools either.
From What Shall We Do? by Leo Tolstoy, Count
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