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Mikhail Lermontov

Died in 1841

Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) was born in Moscow and was brought up by his maternal grandmother on the estate of Tarkhany. Trained at the school for guards' non-commissioned officers, he joined the Guards Hussars. In 1837, his poem on the death of Pushkin circulated in copies, caused a scandal in high society and earned him arrest, then exile to the Caucasus. Exiled again in 1840, he distinguished himself at the battle of the Valerik River. He was killed in a duel on 15 July 1841, at the foot of Mount Mashuk, by a former schoolmate, Nikolai Martynov.

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