Aleksandr Herzen

Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen (also Aleksandr Ivanovič Gercen; April 6 [O.S. 25 March] 1812 – January 21 [O.S. 9 January] 1870) was a Russian writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism" and one of the main fathers of agrarian populism (being an ideological ancestor of the Narodniki, Socialist-Revolutionaries, Trudoviks and the agrarian American Populist Party).

With his writings, many composed while exiled in London, he attempts to influence the situation in Russia, contributing to a political climate that leads to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861.

He publishes the important social novel Who is to Blame? (1845–46).

His autobiography, My Past and Thoughts (written 1852–1870), is often considered the best specimen of this genre in Russian literature.

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