Former times and thoughts. Emigration

“Past and Duma” is an autobiographical chronicle recognized by literary critics and historians of domestic prose by the main work of the author and one of the key literary works of the 19th century in the memoir genre.
This book includes the fifth and sixth parts of the past and thoughts dedicated to Herzen"s life after leaving Russia - first in France, then in Italy, again in France and, finally, in England, which was to become a long time for the author new homeland.
England, in whose capital political passions burned, because it was forced to settled by political emigrants of literally all conceivable degrees of radicality and all possible exercises and systems from many European countries ...
The memoir component is interspersed with bright paintings of the political life of Western Europe the stormy middle of the XIX century, philosophical interlides, essays and articles