See Also: Herzen, Aleksandr (Ivanovich)(encyclopedia)
Guchkov, Aleksandr (Ivanovich)(encyclopedia)
samian(medicine)
Samian(dictionary)
Pushkin, Aleksandr(dictionary)
Ivanovich (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Ivanov, Lev (Ivanovich)(encyclopedia)
Aleksandr (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Chaliapin, Feodor (Ivanovich)(encyclopedia)
Menshikov, Aleksandr (Danilovich)(encyclopedia)

Herzen, Aleksandr (Ivanovich) (sh) and Samian (iou)


Herzen, Aleksandr (Ivanovich) (sh)




born April 6, 1812, Moscow, Russia
died Jan. 21, 1870, Paris, France

Russian writer and political activist.

As a student at the University of Moscow, he joined a socialist group, for which he was exiled to work in the provincial bureaucracy (1834-42). Returning to Moscow, he joined the Westernizers but then turned to anarchist socialism. After inheriting a considerable fortune, he left Russia. In Paris he proclaimed Western institutions "dead" and developed the theory of a unique Russian path to socialism known as peasant populism. He moved to London in 1852 and founded the Free Russian Press, as well as the influential newspaper Kolokol ("The Bell") in 1857; smuggled into Russia, the paper was read by both reformers and revolutionaries. When the Emancipation Act was enacted in 1861, he denounced it as a betrayal of the peasants. He then turned his energies to Writing My Past and Thoughts (1861-67), considered one of the greatest works of Russian prose.


Samian (iou)



Samian adjective & noun. L16.
[Latin Samius, Greek Samos (see below): see -AN.]
A. adjective. Of or pertaining to Samos, an island in the Aegean Sea, the birthplace of Pythagoras. L16.
Samian earth earth from Samos, used to make pottery etc. Samian letter the letter Ķī, used by Pythagoras as an emblem of the different roads of Virtue and Vice. Samian ware (a) pottery made of Samian earth; (b) (also samian) a fine kind of reddish-brown pottery found extensively on Roman sites.
b. noun.
A native or inhabitant of Samos. L16.
(Freq. samian.) Samian ware. M20.