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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
After this, Jesus traveled about from one town and village to another, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with him, and also some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had come out; Joanna the wife of Chuza, the manager of Herod’s household; Susanna ...
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]
John the Baptist baptised Jesus. John 1:19–42, 3:22–36, 4:1 John the Baptist preached to people and baptised them in the Jordan. He denied being the Messiah. It is unstated whether or not John the Baptist baptised Jesus. He insisted Jesus was superior: the Son/Lamb of God. Two of John the Baptist's disciples – including Andrew ...