Nikolai Martynov
Russian army officer
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| Intro | Russian army officer | |
| Places | Russia | |
| was | Military personnel | |
| Work field | Military | |
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| Birth | 9 October 1815, Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia | |
| Death | 25 December 1875Moscow, Russia (aged 60 years) | |
| Star sign | Libra |
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Nikolai Solomonovich Martynov (Russian: Николай Соломонович Мартынов) (1815–1875) was the Russian army officer who fatally shot the poet Mikhail Lermontov in a duel on July 27, 1841, despite Lermontov's supposedly having made it known that he was going to shoot into the air.