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In the French city of Nice on the northern shore of the Mediterranean, a bronze statue was erected. His face was harsh, his eyes stared at the ocean, as if he was thinking about a major question. He, the outstanding revolutionary democrat, materialist philosopher and thinker, famous writer Herzens of Russia.

Herzen was born on April 6, 1812 in a nobility family in Moscow. Under the educational education of progressive family teachers, he longed for freedom from childhood and hated authoritarianism. The party uprising of December 1825 in Russia was suppressed and he was greatly affected. Herzen, 14, and his best friend, Oleg Liov, solemnly swore on the Mushroom Mountains in the outskirts of Moscow, determined to inherit the revolutionary tradition of the party of December, "retaliation for those who were executed."

In 1833, he graduated from Moscow University with excellent results and earned a master's degree, but the tsarist government arrested him on charges of "extremely dangerous liberals for society." He was later exiled to many places. The exile life allowed him to witness the corruption and cruelty of the tsarist bureaucracy, and firmly insisted on his revolutionary stance against feudal dictatorship and slavery. From 1842 to 1847, he published a series of philosophical writings. Lenin praised Herzens' philosophy as "capable of reaching the level of the greatest thinker."

In March 1847, Herzen travelled with his family to France, where the revolutionary storm was born. In October, he arrived in Italy, where the national independence movement broke out. When he heard the news of the French Revolution in February 1848, he returned to Paris day and night. His revolutionary activities led to further persecution by reactionary forces. The French government pursued him, and the Tsarist government did not allow him to return. In 1849 he came to Geneva and joined the Swiss nationality. In 1852, he emigrated to London, founded revolutionary journals such as The North Star, The Bell, and spread to Russia through various channels, and played a major role in promoting the revolutionary movement in Russia. During this period, he also wrote a memoir, The Past and the Thought, which is a pearl in the world literary

Herzen died in Paris on January 21, 1870. Soon his ashes were transported to Nice and buried in front of his wife's tomb.