Abstract
Abstract The article shows, how Alexander Herzen, following Heine’s “Reisebilder”, develops a new poetic and journalistic style of writing, which specifically corresponds to the literary and cultural norms of the “Natural School”. At the same time, his early prose works demonstrate the difficulties which a young noble and radical intellectual had in reconciling his revolutionary mind-set with his convictions about the individual’s right to liberty and material independence. Herzen defended these convictions above all, not only against the Czarist autocracy and Western Europe’s civil society, but also against the peasants’ communal organization in a future socialist Russia.
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