From Odessa to Constantinople they had a quick and safe passage.

In 1823 he went to Odessa as attaché of the General Governor Count Woronzow, whom he pursued with biting epigram,until in 1824 the poet of "Russlan and Ludimilla" was removed from the service and banished to his mother's estates by order of the Tsar Alexander I. These two years of unwilling retirement worked mightily upon the soul of Pushkin so filled with storm and stress.

" Rather disturbed at the intelligence that there was a Polish regiment in the town, the boys hastened through their meal, and determined to lay in a stock of bread and meat sufficient for some days' consumption, and to leave Odessa at once.

At this time Russia had concentrated a great army near the Rumanian frontier, and it was understood that a large number of heavy guns had arrived at Odessa for its use.

These dreams took shape in the foundation of a secret societythe 'Philikì Hetairía' or 'League of Friends'which established itself at Odessa in 1814 with the connivence of the Russian police, and opened a campaign of propaganda in anticipation of an opportunity to strike.