The Pharaon that the Crowd Dragged Turned a Life into Liberty's Warning
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The Pharaon that the Crowd Dragged Turned a Life into Liberty's Warning
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In the winter of 1917, a seven-year-old boy on a Petrograd street watched roughly twenty people drag a single man through the snow. The man had been firing from rooftops in defense of the Tsar, and the word used for men like him — Pharaon — never once appeared in the history books the boy later read. What does a child do with a memory the record itself refuses to keep?
In this episode, we trace Isaiah Berlin's path from a merchant family in Riga to a British diplomatic post in wartime Washington and a candlelit room in Leningrad with Anna Akhmatova, asking what happens when a philosophy convinced of its own liberating mission decides that individual lives are an acceptable price.
Person: Isaiah Berlin
Location: Petrograd, later Oxford
Date: winter 1917
Case: a loyalist sniper, a "pharaon," dragged through the street by a crowd of about twenty people
Status: the incident became the seed of Berlin's 1958 essay "Two Concepts of Liberty," still debated in philosophy today
- Isaiah Berlin was born on June 6, 1909, in Riga, then part of the Russian Empire
- The Berlin family left Petrograd for Riga on October 5, 1920, and settled in Britain by early 1921
- At Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Berlin won the John Locke Prize in 1928, outscoring A.J. Ayer
- At twenty-three he became the first unconverted Jew elected to a fellowship at All Souls College
- His November 1945–January 1946 meetings with poet Anna Akhmatova in Leningrad preceded her expulsion from the Union of Soviet Writers and the arrest of her son, Lev Gumilyov
- Berlin died in Oxford on November 5, 1997, and is buried at Wolvercote Cemetery
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