Who's to blame? according to Alexander Herzen

In this episode of What to do and Who's to blame of the Russian Literature, I'm looking at Who's to blame? by Alexander Herzen. As always I talk you through Herzen's biography, recap the plot for the book and then get into themes.
Timecodes:
00:00 Intro
00:25 Biography
06:49 Plot summary
09:10 Language and style
11:10 Themes
11:47 Herzen's Russia
13:40 Feminism
16:58 Beltov as a superfluous man
22:00 The love triangle
26:09 Outro

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Thank you so much for the review! Hertzen is famous in Russia, yet there are very few Russians who had actually read anything written by him. (He is not included into the reading list for schools). But he might be worth reading. At least he does not pretend to have high morals like Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy.