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Mikhail Lermontov

1814 - 1841

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Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov ( LAIR-mən-tof, US also -⁠tawf; Russian: Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil ˈjʉrʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲerməntəf]; 15 October [O.S. 3 October] 1814 – 27 July [O.S. 15 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 figure in Russian Romanticism. His influence on Russian literature is felt in modern times, through his poetry, but also his prose, which founded the tradition of the Russian psychological novel. Lermontov was born on October 15, 1814 in Moscow into the Lermontov family and grew up in Tarkhany. Lermontov's father, Yuri Petrovich, was a military officer who married Maria Mikhaylovna Arsenyeva, a young heiress from an aristocratic family. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mikhail Lermontov is the 344th most popular writer (up from 356th in 2019), the 112th most popular biography from Russia (up from 125th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Russian Writer.

Mikhail Lermontov is most famous for his poem "The Death of a Poet."

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Among writers, Mikhail Lermontov ranks 344 out of 7,302. Before him are Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Ève Curie, Svetlana Alliluyeva, Maurice Leblanc, Arion, and Archilochus. After him are J. D. Vance, Amos Oz, Eyvind Johnson, Paul Valéry, Simonides of Ceos, and Marguerite Duras.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Mikhail Lermontov ranks 4. Before him are Mikhail Bakunin, Jean-François Millet, and Taras Shevchenko. After him are Samuel Colt, Anders Jonas Ångström, Adolphe Sax, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Julius von Mayer, Edwin Stanton, Hong Xiuquan, and Henri Nestlé. Among people deceased in 1841, Mikhail Lermontov ranks 3. Before him are Nicolas Appert, and Johann Friedrich Herbart. After him are William Henry Harrison, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Caroline of Baden, George Green, Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, Friedrich Sertürner, Johan August Arfwedson, and Félix Savart.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Lermontov ranks 112 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolai Yezhov (1895), Mikhail Bakhtin (1895), Mikhail Botvinnik (1911), Arnold Sommerfeld (1868), Tokhtamysh (1342), and Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926). After him are Mikhail Tukhachevsky (1893), Yevgeny Prigozhin (1961), Grigory Potemkin (1739), Anatoly Karpov (1951), Vladimir Komarov (1927), and Ivan VI of Russia (1740).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Mikhail Lermontov ranks 15. Before him are Boris Pasternak (1890), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), Ivan Turgenev (1818), Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861), and Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926). After him are Mikhail Sholokhov (1905), Joseph Brodsky (1940), Sergei Yesenin (1895), Vladimir Vysotsky (1938), Ivan Bunin (1870), and Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884).

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