
Nikolai Solomonovich Martynov (; 1815–1875) was the Russian army officer who fatally shot the poet
Mikhail Lermontov
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov ( , ; rus, Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, , mʲɪxɐˈil ˈjʉrʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲerməntəf, links=yes; – ) was a Russian Romanticism, Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called ...
in a cliff-edge
duel
A duel is an arranged engagement in combat between two people with matched weapons.
During the 17th and 18th centuries (and earlier), duels were mostly single combats fought with swords (the rapier and later the small sword), but beginning in ...
on July 27, 1841,
despite Lermontov's supposedly having made it known that he was going to shoot into the air.
References
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Brief Biography of Lermontov at faculty.virginia.edu with mention of the duel
1815 births
1875 deaths
Mikhail Lermontov
Imperial Russian Army personnel
Russian duellists
Russian military personnel of the Caucasian War
Graduates of the Nicholas Cavalry College
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