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“Past and Duma” is an autobiographical chronicle, on which Herzen worked for many years, from 1852 to 1868, a chronicle, recognized by literary critics and historians of domestic prose, the main work of the author and one of the key literary works of the 19th century in the memoir genre. Herzen himself compared this large -scale work with a house, which is constantly increasing “a combination of extensions, add -ons, outbuildings.”
This book includes the first two parts of the Past and Duma, which tell about the child’s childhood and adolescence - held in the house of the father - A brilliantly educated aristocrat with a difficult character, about the first acquaintance with N. Ogarev, with whom Herzen will be carried through his whole life, about entering the circle of liberal young intelligentsia, arrest, imprisonment and exile in Vyatka, and later in Vladimir