M. : Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1955. - 510 s. The fifth volume of the present edition includes one of the central works of Herzen of the revolution of 1848 .. "Letters from France and Italy" In addition to the main text of the "Letter", given in the last lifetime edition of 1858 . in the volume printed: early edition of the IV letter series "Letters from Avenue Marigny" on publication in the "Contemporary" 1847 (distinctions of the first three letters of this cycle from the 1858 edition. are given in versions) and early editions of the series "Letters with via del Corso" and "Again in Paris" with variants to them (on handwritten materials PD and LB), as well as versions of the 1855 edition. and in the appendix versions of the German edition of 1850. For the first time, two handwritten excerpts from the translation of the "Letter" into French, belonging to Herzen (TSGAOR) are published .