biography
| name: |
Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich
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pronunciation:
[lermontof]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1814–41)
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| biography:
| Poet and writer, born in Moscow, Russia. He attended Moscow University and the military cavalry school of St Petersburg. A poem he wrote in 1837 on the death of Pushkin caused his exile to the Caucasus. Reinstated, he was again banished following a duel with the son of the French ambassador. The scenery of the Caucasus inspired his best poetry, such as ‘The Novice’ and ‘The Demon’, and his novel, A Hero of our Time (1840), is a masterpiece of prose writing. He was killed in another duel at the age of 27, and much of his fame as the leading Romantic poet was posthumous. |
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