Ogaryov
Ogarev or Ogaryov (russian: Огарёв) is a Russian masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Ogareva or Ogaryova. It may refer to * Nikolay Ogarev (1813–1877), Russian poet and revolutionary {{surname Russian-language surnames ...
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Nikolay Ogarev
Nikolay Platonovich Ogarev (Ogaryov; ; – ) was a Russian poet, historian and political activist. 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 the summer of 1827, during a walk in the Sparrow Hills above Moscow, Herzen and Ogarev made an oath not to rest until their country was free; the oath reportedly sustained them and their friends throughout many crises of their lives at home and abroad and was described in E. H. Carr's ''The Romantic Exiles''. Biography Nikolay Ogaryov was born in Saint 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. In 1826 he met and became a close friend of his distant relative Ale ...
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