Ogaryov

NIKOLAI OGARYOV ( 1813 - 1877)

The unpretentious building at 66 Westmorland Road in Newcastle is where Nikolai Ogaryov lived for a few months in 1874. His name is known to every Russian, not only as a poet, but as the fellow-exile and collaborator of the great Alexander Herzen on The Bell, a newspaper printed in England and smuggled into Russia. The oath the two young men swore on the Sparrow hills above Moscow in 1840, not to rest until their country was free, is again something all Russians know. It sustained them and their friends throughout the many crises of their lives at home and abroad, memorably described in E.H. Carr's The Romantic Exiles.

In October 1874, Ogaryov was living in Hawthorn Terrace (or possibly Hawthorn Place) at the house of 'my friend' Charles Wood, a local businessman. In November he was at the house of a Mrs Smith at 66 Westmorland Road. How Ogaryov spent his time in the city has yet to be researched, though he was very pleased to have arrived in Newcastle - as well he might be after a sea journey with his beloved Mary (and furniture) all the way from Genoa. While in Newcastle, Ogaryov worked on his 'Confession in Verse' and his 'Last Curse' (unfinished). The end of the year, however, saw the couple in Mary's home town of Greenwich, where Ogaryov died in 1877, still active in the cause of freedom.

Myers Literary Guide:	The North-East
NIKOLAI OGARYOV ( 1813 - 1877) The unpretentious building at 66 Westmorland Road in Newcastle is where Nikolai Ogaryov lived for a few months in 1874. His name is known to every Russian, not only as a poet, but as the fellow-exile and collaborator of the great Alexander Herzen on The Bell, a newspaper printed in England and smuggled into Russia. The oath the two young men swore on the Sparrow hills above Moscow in 1840, not to rest until their country was free, is again something all Russians know. It sustained them and their friends throughout the many crises of their lives at home and abroad, memorably described in E.H. Carr's The Romantic Exiles. In October 1874, Ogaryov was living in Hawthorn Terrace (or possibly Hawthorn Place) at the house of 'my friend' Charles Wood, a local businessman. In November he was at the house of a Mrs Smith at 66 Westmorland Road. How Ogaryov spent his time in the city has yet to be researched, though he was very pleased to have arrived in Newcastle - as well he might be after a sea journey with his beloved Mary (and furniture) all the way from Genoa. While in Newcastle, Ogaryov worked on his 'Confession in Verse' and his 'Last Curse' (unfinished). The end of the year, however, saw the couple in Mary's home town of Greenwich, where Ogaryov died in 1877, still active in the cause of freedom.
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