Alexander Herzen (1812-1870) was the pre-eminent figure of 19th century Russian intelligentsia
and the father of Russian socialism . He was exiled to Siberia in 1933 for his activism in a
group of young socialists and later moved to London where he founded the Free Russian Press to
avoid Russian censorship. Herzen s revolutionary ideas of an unique Russian path of socialism
were essentially influenced by European thinkers as Hegel Mill and Proudhon. His
contemporaries described him as a distinguished Russian refugee who endeavours to blend German
philosophy French political theory and English practical common sense with his original
Russian nature. My exile in Siberia contains a selection of Herzen s biographical writings. It
was originally published 1855 and is still considered one of the greatest works of Russian
exile literature. Volume 1 of 2.
