Lermontov died in 1841 at the age of 26. He was shot and killed in a duel with a fellow officer, Nikolai Martynov. The duel was fought over a woman, Margarita Ivanovna Lopukhina. Lermontov was a famous poet and writer in Russia, and his death was a great loss to the country.
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