My past and thoughts, vol. 1 (of 6)
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- The memoirs of Alexander Herzen
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1. Front matter2. MY PAST AND THOUGHTS THE MEMOIRS OF ALEXANDER HERZEN THE AUTHORISED TRANSLATION TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BY CONSTANCE GARNETT VOLUME I3. TRANSLATOR’S NOTE4. PART I NURSERY & UNIVERSITY (1812–1835)5. Chapter 1 My Nurse and the Grande Armée—The Fire of Moscow—My Father with Napoleon—General Ilovaisky—Travelling with the French Prisoners—The Patriotism of C. Calot—The Common Management of the Property—Dividing it—The Senator6. Chapter 2 The Talk of Nurses and of Generals—False Position—Russian Encyclopaedists—Boredom—The Maids’ Room and the Servants’ Hall—Two Germans—Lessons and Reading—The Catechism and the Gospel7. Chapter 3 The Death of Alexander I. and the Fourteenth of December—Moral Awakening—The Terrorist Bouchot—My Kortcheva Cousin8. Chapter 4 Nick and the Sparrow Hills9. Chapter 5 Details of Home Life—Eighteenth-Century People in Russia—A Day in our House—Visitors and Habitués—Sonnenberg—The Valet and Others10. Chapter 6 The Kremlin Department—Moscow University—Our Set—The Chemist—The Malov Affair—The Cholera—Filaret—V. Passek—General Lissovsky—The Sungurov Affair11. Chapter 6 The Kremlin Department—Moscow University—Our Set—The Chemist—The Malov Affair—The Cholera—Filaret—V. Passek—General Lissovsky—The Sungurov Affair (continued 2)12. Chapter 7 The End of my Studies—The Schiller Period—Early Youth and Bohemianism—Saint-Simonism and N. Polevoy13. Chapter 8 A Prediction—Ogaryov’s Arrest—A Fire—A Moscow Liberal—M. F. Orlov—The Graveyard14. Chapter 9 Arrest—An Impartial Witness—The Office of the Pretchistensky Police Station—A Patriarchal Judge15. Chapter 10 Under the Watch Tower—The Lisbon Policeman—The Incendiaries16. Chapter 11 Krutitsky Barracks—Gendarmes’ Tales—Officers17. Chapter 12 The Investigation—Golitsyn Senior—Golitsyn Junior—General Staal—Sokolovsky—Sentence18. Chapter 13 Exile—The Mayor at Pokrovo—The Volga—Perm19. Chapter 14 Vyatka—The Office and Dining-room of His Excellency—K. Y. Tyufyaev20. Chapter 15 Officials—Siberian Governors-General—A Rapacious Police-Master—An Accommodating Judge—A Roasted Police-Captain—A Tatar Missionary—A Boy of the Female Sex—The Potato Terror, etc.21. Chapter 16 Alexander Lavrentyevitch Vitberg22. Chapter 17 The Tsarevitch at Vyatka—The Fall of Tyufyaev—I am transferred to Vladimir—The Police-Captain at the Posting-Station23. Chapter 18 The Beginning of my Life at Vladimir