Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814–1841) a Russian Romantic writer
and poet, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", was the most important
presence in the Russian poetry from Aleksandr Pushkin's death until his
own four years later, at the age of 26 - like many at that time, the casualty
of a duel. In one of his best-known poems, written on January 1, 1840 he
described his intonations as "iron verse steeped in bitterness and hatred."
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