Letters from France and Italy

Alexander Ivanovich Herzen (1812-1870) - publicist, writer, philosopher of the 19th century, liberal, supporter of revolutionary transformations, one of the most prominent critics of the official ideology and politics of the Russian Empire.
Letters from France and Italy ”is a unique work of the epistolary genre, written by the author after his life in Europe, participation in folk processions and manifestations, visiting revolutionary clubs and dating with prominent figures of national liberation movement. Herzen analyzes the events and moods that worried Europe in 1847-1852, denies the Western European bourgeoisie, its morality and social principles, based on the true faith in the upcoming significance of the “fourth estate”