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In Herzen's lifetime the major parts of the book were translated into English (1855), German (1855) and French (1860-1862). [1] My Past and Thoughts gives a panoramic view on the social and political life in Russian Empire as well as the European West of the mid-19th century.
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Ге́рцен, romanized: Aleksándr Ivánovich Gértsen; 6 April [O.S. 25 March] 1812 – 21 January [O.S. 9 January] 1870) was a Russian writer and thinker known as the precursor of Russian socialism and one of the main precursors of agrarian populism (being an ideological ancestor of the Narodniki, Socialist ...
John the Baptist [note 1] (c. 6 BC [18] – c. AD 30) was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early first century AD. [19] [20] He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy, John the Immerser in some Baptist Christian traditions, [21] and as the prophet Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyā (Arabic: النبي يحيى, An-Nabī ...
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Alexander Ivanov was born on 28 July 1806 to a family of artists. He was only eleven years old when he entered as a student in the Imperial Academy of Arts, where he studied under the guidance of his father, Andrei Ivanovich Ivanov, a professor of painting. Ivanov was awarded two silver medals and in 1824 received a gold medal. [4] [5] [6] [7]
My Past and Thoughts: The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen by Alexander Herzen. Chatto & Windus, London, 1968. (Four volumes) (Revised edition) Ends and Beginnings by Alexander Herzen. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1985. (Revision of Constance Garnett's translation) ISBN 0192816047; Olaus Magnus: A Description of the Northern Peoples, 1555 by ...
The Beheading of John the Baptist, Rombout van Troyen, 1650s, State Hermitage Museum; St John Reproaching Herod, Mattia Preti, 1662–66; St John the Baptist Before Herod, Mattia Preti, 1665; Decapitation of St John, British School, 17th century, Tate Gallery; John the Baptist Beheaded, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1851–60, World Mission ...
Georgia’s Senate voted 33-21 on Monday to pass a bill that would give legislators a veto over significant regulations imposed by the executive branch, a move that has hampered safety efforts and ...