“…He was not interested in writing about Russia for the English press, although there clearly was an appetite for such material: Herzen said that he was 'all the time being asked for articles about Russia… but somehow I cannot get on with them'. 68 Monica Partridge finds only one examplean early article for The Leader on Russian serfdom in which Herzen directly appealed to the English public to involve themselves in Russian affairs. 69 For Herzen then, London was principally a place from which he could do service for other Russian opponents of tsarism, by taking advantage of publishing freedoms, and facilitating discussion.…”