Mikhail Lermontov

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov was born in Moscow in 1814. His mother died when he was a small child, and he was raised by his wealthy grandmother on her estate, Tarkhany; childhood visits to the Caucasus made a lasting impression on him. He studied at Moscow University and then at the cadet school in St. Petersburg, becoming an officer of the Life Guard Hussars. When Pushkin died after a duel in 1837, Lermontov wrote an angry poem, The Death of the Poet, blaming the court circle; it circulated widely, and he was arrested and transferred to a regiment in the Caucasus. After a second duel in 1840 he was sent back there and took part in fierce fighting. His novel A Hero of Our Time appeared in 1840, and his narrative poems, including The Demon and Mtsyri, and his lyrics made him the leading Russian poet after Pushkin. In July 1841, at Pyatigorsk, he was killed in a duel with a fellow officer, Nikolai Martynov. He was twenty-six.

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