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Events on Tuesday 27 July 1841 1
1814 – 1841Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841)Died 27 July 1841, aged 26Mikhail Lermontov, the leading poet of Russian Romanticism and author of the novel 'A Hero of Our Time', was killed in a duel near Pyatigorsk on 27 July 1841. His death, echoing that of Alexander Pushkin four years earlier, cut short a career that had made him Russia's foremost poet after Pushkin. His verse and prose remained central to the Russian literary canon.