Alexander Herzen and Free Russian Press blue plaque

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# 61 Judd Street Standing before this unassuming Victorian townhouse in Bloomsbury, you're gazing at the birthplace of Russian dissent in exile—the headquarters where Alexander Herzen, a radical intellectual fleeing Tsarist persecution, established his clandestine Free Russian Press between 1854 an...

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61 Judd Street

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Alexander Herzen 1812-1870 operated the Free Russian Press from this building 1854-1856