Curated category
Westernizers
- Vissarion BelinskyVissarion Belinsky was born in Sveaborg, a fortress town that is now part of Helsinki. He grew up in the small Russian town of Chembar, where his father…
- Alexander HerzenMoscow, 1812. The city burned as Napoleon's army advanced, and a child named Alexander Ivanovich Herzen was born into chaos.