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Herzen

British  
/ ˈɡjɛrtsən /

noun

  1. Aleksandr ( Ivanovich ) (alɛkˈsandr iˈvaːnovitʃ). 1812–70, Russian socialist political philosopher: best known for his autobiography My Past and Thoughts (1861–67)

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The Coast of Utopia was a massive trilogy about the 19th Century Russian liberal thinker, Alexander Herzen: coolly received at the National Theatre in London, it was a huge success in New York.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025

As we Germans would say: Da schlagen zwei Herzen in meiner Brust.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2025

The tournament’s slogan “United by Football. Vereint im Herzen Europas” — or “United at the Heart of Europe” — is meant to convey a message of togetherness and inclusion.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2021

Take a list of writers, literary critics and social thinkers — Sergey Aksakov, Vissarion Belinsky, Aleksandr Herzen, Mikhail Saltykov-Schedrin — all described in the book as “prominent theatrical observers.”

From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2016

He landed safely in the country where Herzen founded The Bell, where Lavrov edited Forward, where Felix Volkhovsky was to conduct Free Russia, and where he himself was to start Freedom.

From Comrade Kropotkin by Robinson, Victor