Nikolai Martynov

Nikolai Solomonovich Martynov (Russian: Николай Соломонович Мартынов) (18151875) was the Russian army officer who fatally shot the poet Mikhail Lermontov in a cliff-edge duel on July 27, 1841,[1] despite Lermontov's supposedly having made it known that he was going to shoot into the air.

Nikolai Martynov, watercolor by Thomas Wright

References

  1. Ralston, William Ralston Shedden (1911). "Lermontov, Mikhail Yurevich" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 484–485.


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