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Herzen

British  
/ ˈɡjɛrtsən /

noun

  1. Aleksandr ( Ivanovich ) (alɛkˈsandr iˈvaːnovitʃ). 1812–70, Russian socialist political philosopher: best known for his autobiography My Past and Thoughts (1861–67)

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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

As we Germans would say: Da schlagen zwei Herzen in meiner Brust.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2025

The tournament’s slogan “United by Football. Vereint im Herzen Europas” — or “United at the Heart of Europe” — is meant to convey a message of togetherness and inclusion.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2021

Take a list of writers, literary critics and social thinkers — Sergey Aksakov, Vissarion Belinsky, Aleksandr Herzen, Mikhail Saltykov-Schedrin — all described in the book as “prominent theatrical observers.”

From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2016

Herzen, the Russian, who kept the "Kolokol" ringing in the dominions of the Czar, met us at Southampton.

From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Holyoake, George Jacob