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SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Mikhail Lermontov |
 | | Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov (Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов), (October 15, 1814–July 27, 1841), a Russian writer, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", was the most important presence in the Russian poetry since Alexander Pushkin's death until his own death in duel at the age of 26. |
 | | Lermontov was born in Moscow to a respectable family of the Tula province, and grew up in the village of Tarkhany (in the Penza government), which now preserves his remains. |
 | | Lermontov visited Saint Petersburg in 1838 and 1839, and his indignant observations of the aristocratic milieu, wherein fashionable ladies welcomed him as a celebrity, occassioned his play Masquerade. |
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