About the book: 1955 / This collected works of A. I. Herzen is the first scientific edition of the literary and epistolary heritage of an outstanding figure in the Russian liberation movement, a revolutionary democrat, a brilliant thinker and writer. The sixth volume of the collected works of A. I. Herzen contains works of 1847–1851. The central place in the volume belongs to the book “From the Other Shore” (1847–1850). The note “Instead of a preface or explanation to the collection” is devoted to the issue of creating a free Russian press abroad. The articles “La Russie” (“Russia”) and “Lettre d'un Russe à Mazzini” (“Letter from a Russian to Mazzini”), published by the author in 1849 in French, German and Italian, represent Herzen’s first writings on Russia , addressed to the Western European reader. The volume concludes with the story “Duty First” (1847–1851).http://ruslit.traumlibrary.net