About the book: 1956 / 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. In volumes VIII–XI of this edition, Herzen’s largest work of fiction is published - his autobiography “The Past and Thoughts.” This volume contains the fourth part of Herzen’s “The Past and Thoughts,” dedicated to the last years of the writer’s life in Russia. http://ruslit.traumlibrary .net