Quo Fuit places 8 dated presences for Alexander Herzen across 7 places, from 1835 to 1864.
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Alexander Ivanovich Herzen 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-Revolutionaries, Trudoviks and the agrarian American Populist Party).Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Alexander Herzen was documented, and when
1835year
Kirov, Kirov Oblastattested“He was found guilty, and in 1835 banished to Vyatka, now Kirov, in north-eastern European Russia.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Herzen
1842year
St Petersburgattested“Upon arrival, he was appointed as secretary to Count Alexander Stroganov, in the ministry of the interior at St Petersburg; but due to complaining about a death caused by a police officer, was sent to Novgorod where he was a state counci…”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Herzen
1842year
Novgorodattested“Upon arrival, he was appointed as secretary to Count Alexander Stroganov, in the ministry of the interior at St Petersburg; but due to complaining about a death caused by a police officer, was sent to Novgorod where he was a state counci…”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Herzen
1847year
Russiaattested“In 1847, Alexander emigrated with his wife, mother and children, to Italy never to return to Russia.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Herzen
1847year
Italyattested“In 1847, Alexander emigrated with his wife, mother and children, to Italy never to return to Russia.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Herzen
1852year
Genevaattested“In 1852, Natalia died from tuberculosis, and Alexander left Geneva for London, where he settled for many years.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Herzen
1864 to 1870period
Parisattested“In 1864, Herzen returned to Geneva and, after some time, went to Paris where he died in 1870 of tuberculosis complications.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Herzen
1864 to 1870period
Genevaattested“In 1864, Herzen returned to Geneva and, after some time, went to Paris where he died in 1870 of tuberculosis complications.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Herzen
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1839 to 1840period
Moscowmentioned“In 1839 he was set free and returned to Moscow in 1840, where he met literary critic Vissarion Belinsky, who was strongly influenced by him.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Herzen
1847 to 1867period
Londonmentioned“He left Russia permanently in 1847, but his newsletter Kolokol, published in London from 1857 to 1867, was widely read.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Herzen
1848year
Switzerlandmentioned“From Italy, on hearing of the revolution of 1848, he hastened to Paris and then to Switzerland.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Herzen
1848year
Italymentioned“From Italy, on hearing of the revolution of 1848, he hastened to Paris and then to Switzerland.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Herzen
1848year
Parismentioned“From Italy, on hearing of the revolution of 1848, he hastened to Paris and then to Switzerland.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Herzen
1848year
Kansasmentioned“He became critical of those 1848 revolutionaries who were "so revolted by the Reaction after 1848, so exasperated by everything European, that they hastened on to Kansas or California".”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Herzen
1853year
Russiamentioned“With the publications of his Free Russian Press, which he founded in London in 1853, he tried to influence the situation in Russia and improve the situation of the Russian peasantry he idolized.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Herzen
1853year
Londonmentioned“With the publications of his Free Russian Press, which he founded in London in 1853, he tried to influence the situation in Russia and improve the situation of the Russian peasantry he idolized.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Herzen
1855 to 1862period
Siberiamentioned“In French also appeared his essay Du Developpement des idées revolutionnaires en Russie, and his Memoirs, which, after being printed in Russian, were translated under the title of Le Monde russe et la Révolution (3 vols., 1860–1862), and…”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Herzen
1856year
Londonmentioned“In 1856, he was joined in London by his old friend Nikolay Ogarev.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Herzen
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