Nikolay Ogarev
Ogarev's portrait by an unknown painter, c. 1830.
Born	Nikolay Platonovich Ogarev December 6, 1813(1813-12-06) Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died	June 12, 1877 (aged 63) Greenwich, England
Occupation	poet, historian and political activist

Nikolay Platonovich Ogarev (Ogaryov; Russian: Никола́й Плато́нович Огарёв; December 6 [O.S. November 24] 1813 – June 12 [O.S. May 31] 1877), was a Russian poet, historian and political activist. He was deeply critical of the limitations of the Emancipation of the Serfs claiming that the serfs were not free but had simply exchanged one form of serfdom for another.

Ogarev's name is known to every Russian, not only as a poet, but as the fellow-exile and collaborator of Alexander Herzen on Kolokol, 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 familiar to all Russians. 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.

From October 1874, Ogarev was living in Newcastle upon Tyne very pleased to have arrived after a sea journey with his beloved Mary (and furniture) all the way from Genoa. While in Newcastle, Ogarev 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 Ogarev died in 1877, still active in the cause of freedom.

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