# Alexander Herzen — Memoirs of a Revolutionist character guide

> Alexander Herzen in Memoirs of a Revolutionist by Peter Kropotkin.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Alexander Hérzen, Hérzen

**First appearance:** 0033-i

## Who they are

Russian writer and revolutionary thinker, publisher of The Bell.

## In the story

### [Entering the Corps of Pages](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/x)

Mentioned as a noted exile whose house inspired awe.

### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/viii)

Great refugee and writer whose Polar Star and Bell influenced the author and circulated secretly in St. Petersburg.

### [Chapter IX: The Tsar and the Court](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/ix)

Mentioned as a friend of Kavélin; the Empress said she had no grudge against him except for his violent language about the Empress dowager.

### [St. Petersburg in the 1870s: The Reign of Reaction](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/iv)

Referenced indirectly through the mention of Chernyshévsky's St. Petersburg, evoking the intellectual atmosphere of the 1860s.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/vi)

Mentioned as the publisher of The Bell, in which Turgenev participated.

### [The Struggle Intensifies](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/viii)

Referenced for his words 'Thou hast conquered, Galilean,' which the youth would have repeated had Alexander II shown any desire to improve conditions.

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