The Russian Investigative Committee has launched an investigation into the murder of the great Russian writer Mikhail Lermontov, announced RIA Novosti agency quoting Nikolay Burlyaev, People's Artist of Russia and Deputy of the State Duma.
"The Investigative Committee responded positively to our request… serious preparations for the investigation have begun," the deputy said. Later, the Investigative Committee announced that this information was not true.
At the end of January, Burlyaev said he had appealed to the Investigative Committee with the relevant application. According to him, for many years, Lermontov scholars, forensic, ballistics, and medical experts have stated that the investigation conducted immediately after Lermontov was killed in 1841 was unfair and biased.
For your information, Mikhail Lermontov was born in 1814. He died at the age of 26 during a duel at the foot of the Mashuk mountain on July 27, 1841 (old calendar July 15). The writer got into a fight with Nikolai Martynov, a 25-year-old retired major, in the city of Pyatigorsk. During the duel, they fired pistols. Lermontov fired into the air. Martynov aimed at the poet's chest and killed him.
This was Lermontov's second duel. A year earlier, in 1840, the writer also got into a fight with the son of the French ambassador at a ceremonial ball - dance event, leading to a duel. Both survived the shooting incident.
The writer, poet, artist, and military officer Mikhail Lermontov participated in the Russian Empire's colonial wars in the Caucasus. He is famous for literary works such as “A Hero of Our Time”, “Bela”, “The Fugitive”, “Mtsyri”, and “Borodino”.
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