On this day

On this day

Birthday anniversary of Alexander I. Herzen, Russian author, philosopher and writer of political essays

6 April 1812

March 25 (April 6) 1812, in the family of the landowner I. Yakovlev and a German Henrietta Wilhelmina Luisa Haag was born Alexander Herzen, future Russian author, philosopher, writer of political essays, revolutionary; one of the founders of the Free Russian Press (1853). His parents' marriage was not officially registered, so Yakovlev imagined for his son the name "Herzen" from German Herz - «the heart."

The Orders of Lenin and the Red Star established

6 April 1930

On April 6, 1930 under the decree of the Central Executive Committee Presidium of the USSR were established the Order of Lenin and the Order of Red Star. On May 5, 1930 their statutes were approved.