Mikhail Lermontov
1814 CE–1841 CE · Poet · Moscow
Mikhail Lermontov was a Russian poet, novelist and army officer, widely regarded as a leading figure of Russian Romanticism after Pushkin. Born in Moscow in 1814 and raised largely at his grandmother's Tarkhany estate, he studied in Moscow and trained at the cavalry cadet school in Saint Petersburg. His 1837 poem "Death of the Poet," written after Pushkin's fatal duel, led to his exile to the Caucasus. His works include the narrative poems "The Demon" and "Mtsyri" and the novel "A Hero of Our Time." He was killed in a duel with Nikolai Martynov at Pyatigorsk in 1841, aged twenty-six.
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Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Mikhail Bakunin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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- Mary Shelley· 1797 CE–1851 CE
- Mirza Ghalib· 1797 CE–1869 CE
- Auguste Comte· 1798 CE–1857 CE
- Eugène Delacroix· 1798 CE–1863 CE
- Honoré de Balzac· 1799 CE–1850 CE
- Alexander Pushkin· 1799 CE–1837 CE
- Alexandre Dumas (père)· 1802 CE–1870 CE
- Hector Berlioz· 1803 CE–1869 CE
- Nathaniel Hawthorne· 1804 CE–1864 CE
- Ludwig Feuerbach· 1804 CE–1872 CE
- Alexis de Tocqueville· 1805 CE–1859 CE
- Giuseppe Mazzini· 1805 CE–1872 CE
- Felix Mendelssohn· 1809 CE–1847 CE
- Edgar Allan Poe· 1809 CE–1849 CE
- Nikolai Gogol· 1809 CE–1852 CE
- Frédéric Chopin· 1810 CE–1849 CE
- Robert Schumann· 1810 CE–1856 CE
- William Makepeace Thackeray· 1811 CE–1863 CE
- Charlotte Brontë· 1816 CE–1855 CE
- Emily Brontë· 1818 CE–1848 CE
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- Moshoeshoe I· 1786 CE–1870 CE
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- Nicholas I· 1796 CE–1855 CE
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- James K. Polk· 1795 CE–1849 CE
- Osceola (Asi-yahola)· 1804 CE–1838 CE
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