PART ONE—NURSERY AND UNIVERSITY
1812-1834
| Chapter I. My Nurse and the Grande Armeé—Moscow in Flames—My Father and Napoleon—General Ilovaiski—A Journey with French Prisoners—Patriotism—Calot—Property Managed in Common—The Division—The Senator. | [3] |
| Chapter II. Gossip of Nurses and Conversation of Generals—A False Position—Boredom—The Servants’ Hall—Two Germans—Lessons and Reading—Catechism and the Gospel. | [28] |
| Chapter III. Death of Alexander I—The Fourteenth of December—Moral Awakening—Bouchot—My Cousin—N. Ogaryóv. | [62] |
| Chapter IV. My Friend Niko and the Sparrow Hills. | [85] |
| Chapter V. Details of Home Life—Men of the Eighteenth Century in Russia—A Day at Home—Guests and Visitors—Sonnenberg—Servants. | [95] |
| Chapter VI. The Kremlin Offices—Moscow University—The Chemist—The Cholera—Philaret—Passek. | [120] |
| Chapter VII. End of College Life—The “Schiller” Stage—Youth—The Artistic Life—Saint—Simonianism and N. Polevói—Polezháev. | [173] |
PART TWO—PRISON AND EXILE
1834-1838
| Chapter I. A Prophecy—Ogaryóv’s Arrest—The Fires—A Moscow Liberal—Mihail Orlóv—The Churchyard. | [201] |
| Chapter II. Arrest—The Independent Witness—A Police-Station—Patriarchal Justice. | [214] |
| Chapter III. Under the Belfry—A Travelled Policeman—The Incendiaries. | [222] |
| Chapter IV. The Krutitski Barracks—A Policeman’s Story—The Officers. | [235] |
| Chapter V. The Enquiry—Golitsyn Senior—Golitsyn Junior—General Staal—The Sentence—Sokolovski. | [246] |
| Chapter VI. Exile—A Chief Constable—The Volga—Perm. | [265] |
| Chapter VII. Vyatka—The Office and Dinner-table of His Excellency—Tufáyev. | [283] |
| Chapter VIII. Officials—Siberian Governors—A Bird of Prey—A Gentle Judge—An Inspector Roasted—The Tatar—A Boy of the Female Sex—The Potato Revolt—Russian Justice. | [307] |
| Chapter IX. Alexander Vitberg. | [342] |
| Chapter X. The Crown Prince at Vyatka—The Fall of Tufáyev—Transferred to Vladímir—The Inspector’s Enquiry. | [360] |
| Chapter XI. The Beginning of my Life at Vladímir. | [374] |
INTRODUCTION
I
ALEXANDER HERZEN was born in Moscow on March 25,[[1]] 1812, six months before Napoleon arrived at the gates of the city with what was left of his Grand Army. He died in Paris on January 9, 1870. Down to his thirty-fifth year he lived in Russia, often in places selected for his residence by the Government; he left Russia, never to return, on January 10, 1847.