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Mikhail Lermontov

Died on July 15, 1841

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Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov ( LAIR-mən-tof, US also -⁠tawf; Russian: Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, IPA:; 15 October 1814 – 27 July 1841) was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837 and the greatest…

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