Nikolai Solomonovich Martynov was the Russian army officer who fatally shot the poet Mikhail Lermontov in a cliff-edge duel on July 27, 1841, despite Lermontov's supposedly having made it known that he was going to shoot into the air.
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About this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1815 to 1875 · aged 60
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5 languages
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