Background
Nikolay Ogaryov was born in Saint St. Petersburg into a family of wealthy Russian landowners. Having lost his mother early, Nikolay spent his childhood years in his father"s estate nearby Penza.
Nikolay Ogaryov was born in Saint St. Petersburg into a family of wealthy Russian landowners. Having lost his mother early, Nikolay spent his childhood years in his father"s estate nearby Penza.
Moscow State University.
He was deeply critical of the limitations of the Emancipation reform of 1861 claiming that the serfs were not free but had simply exchanged one form of serfdom for another. Ogarev was a fellow-exile and collaborator of Alexander Herzen on Kolokol, a newspaper printed in England and smuggled into Russia. In 1820 he left the farm and went to study at the University of Moscow, where he developed a remarkable political work by joining a group of utopian socialists, resulting in his arrest and exile on his father"s farm.
In 1856 he left Russia for good, living many years in London and Geneva, dedicated to the organization of free Russian print publication of The Bell and General Assembly.
From October 1874, Ogarev began living in Newcastle upon Tyne, where he arrived with his beloved Mary all the way from Genoa. While in Newcastle, Ogarev worked on his Confession in Verse and his unfinished work Last Curse.
By the end of that year, however, the couple was living in Mary"s hometown of Greenwich, where Ogarev died in 1877.
