Shipwreck:

Act 1: 

Time 1846-48

1. Summer 1846: Soklovo Garden (15 miles from Moscow) (122-46)

· Kolya’s deafness:

· ‘grown-up-ness’

· Herzen’s materialism and scepticism about God and Reason

· He derides obeying any ideology.

2. July 1847: Salzbrunn, Germany: a watering shack in a spa (147-49)

3. July 1847 Place de la Concorde, Paris (151-64)

· The chandelier says, “Herzen is our first bourgeois.”

· Belinsky is returning home: Russia even with the censorship is the place where writing means something.

· Herzen There must be a European revolution before a Russsian one, and in Paris, the liberals believe in “Virtue by decree”, not freedom.

4. September 1847: Herzen’s luxurious apartment on the Avenue Marigny, Paris (151-64)

5. March 1848: Place de la Concorde, Paris (164-68)

6. May 15, 1848: Herzen’s new apartment near the Arc d’Triomphe (168-173)

· Natalie and her new friend, Natasha (19) are dressed in tri-color, soaking wet and in ‘ecstatic friendship’!

· Herzen fears the liberal French government will use violence to put down the workers for disrupting parliament.

7. June 1848: A Parisian boulevard with a shirtless beggar leaning on a crutch. (174-75)

· Natalie and Natasha praise Geroges Sand: “To follow your love wherever it leads you! To let love be your guide to the greater good!”

8. June 21, 1848: A Parisian boulevard with shirtless beggar. (175-77)

· The Marseillaise is drowned out out by volleys of rifle fire.

9. June 27, 1848: Herzen’s apartment. The Beggar is still visible. (177-180)

· Herzen: Bread got left out of the theory. Universal happiness is certain! Just not for you.

10. September 1847 reprise (see scene 4) (180-82)

· “Ko’ya” speaks his name for the first time.

Act 2 (183-228)

Time: 1849-1852

1. January 1849 Paris Garden (183-88)

· Herzen vs Marx: He argues that the artisan cobbler was at least his own man, unlike the mindless factory workers. Even the utopian communities treat people like machines. Herzen prefers Bakunin’s mindless rebellion to Marx’s theory. Let the ideas come later. (184)

· Herzen lambasts the liberals: the kept women of the bourgoisie (186)

· Herzen on Ogarev’s appreciation of the true meaning of freedom: his tolerance of Maria’s betrayal of him.

2. April 1849 Maria Ogarev’s Studio apartment, Paris (188-93)

· Maria: “…the next time I fell in love, it stank of turpentine, tobacco smoke, dirty laundry… the musk of love!”  (191)

· Natalie: our lives should be lived as a work of art, that nature is reaching for perfection through the lives we lead? (192)

3. May 1849 A Jail Cell in Saxony, Germany (193-95)

· Bakunin suggests that the town’s Raphael be hung on the barricades

4. June 1849 A Park Near Rousseau’s Cottage outside Paris (195-203)

· Herzen invite Herwegh to join his family in Zurich

5. September 1850 Verandah of a Beach House in Nice, Italy (203-208)

· Herzen has published From the Other Shore

· Natalie is pregnant with Olga

6. November 1850 Verandah of a Beach House in Nice, Italy (208-211)

· Herzen’s reaction: he puts his cigar out in his wine glass.

7. January 1851 Verandah of a Beach House in Nice, Italy (210-215)

· Herzen insists on the necessity of egoism and demands an end to the affair or his own hold on life will slip. Natalie insists that she has lost the ideal of a love which is greater the more it includes.

8. November 1851 Verandah of a Beach House in Nice, Italy (215-221)

· Shipwreck: Kolya and Grandma are dead!

9. August 1852 The Deck of a Cross Channel Steamer (221-226)

· “Where is the song when it is sung? The dance when it has been danced?”

· turned their backs on the West, which direction should Russia follow

· Herzen mean by ‘Russian Socialism’

10. Summer 1846 Reprise of Ii Soklovo Garden (15 miles from Moscow) (226-228)

· Revenge of the Decembrists.