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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 cliff-edge duel on July 27, 1841, despite Lermontov's supposedly having made it known that he was going to shoot into the air.
- “A Certain Butterfly Is Already on The Wing.”
- “I Am Dying! It’S Been A Long Time Since I Drank Champagne!”
- “Russia Ate me,like A Stupid Pig Eats Its Piglet.”
- “Is That You, Fool?"
- “I Loved You and Did Not Cheat on You Once, Even in My thoughts.”
- “I Will Not Shoot at This Fool!”
- “I Love The Truth”
- “Bring Me The Ladder!”
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Nobel Prize winner Vladimir Nabokovwas interested in entomology and collected butterflies. Dmitry, the writer’s son, recalled that when he was saying goodbye to his father, the dying man’s eyes suddenly filled with tears: "I asked why? He said that a certain butterfly was already on the wing..."
The writer and physician Anton Chekhov perished of tuberculosis in the German resort town of Badenweiler. According to an old German tradition, a doctor who diagnoses a patient with a fatal illness treats them to champagne. Chekhov’s last words were addressed to his doctor.
The symbolist poet Alexander Blokfell seriously ill in the spring of 1921. The disease was caused by starvation during the civil war, nervous exhaustion, and the failure of the Russian intelligentsia to accept his revolutionary poem “The Twelve”. Writer Maxim Gorky, People's Commissar Anatoly Lunacharsky, and the poet’s friends were trying to secur...
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrinwas known for his ruthless humor and satire. According to legend, he greeted his own death with the question "Is that you, fool?"
These were the final words writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky said to his wife Anna. Throughout their marriage, the couple spent just a couple of days away from each other. Anna was not only the writer’s wife, but also his assistant. She copied his manuscripts, dealt with publishers and printers, and even helped her husband to conquer his gambling habit.
During the duel between the poet Mikhail Lermontovand Nikolay Martynov, neither fired his pistol after the count, so Martynov shouted: "Shoot, or I am ending this duel!" To which Lermontov calmly replied: "I will not shoot at this fool!" These words irked Martynov and he pulled the trigger, before rushing to the unfortunate poet, saying: "Misha, fo...
At 83, Count Leo Tolstoy escaped to his estate in Yasnaya Polyana, Tula Region, 200km from Moscow. Accompanied by his daughter and a physician, he traveled in a third-class train carriage. During the journey he caught a cold, which developed into pneumonia. Already delirious, the writer said: "I love the truth."
The image of a ladder is one of the main mysteries of the writer Nikolai Gogol. As a child, little Kolya heard a story his grandmother used to tell about a ladder, which took people’s souls to heaven. In different variations, this image is present in many of Gogol's works. According to eyewitnesses, the writer’s last words were: "The ladder, quickl...
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Here, Martynov records many conversations with, and letters from, Shostakovich. Some he did not dare write down, given the risks involved, even after Stalin's demise. Example—concerning the rarely-played Second and Third Symphonies by Shostakovich: "Blazhkov was going to revive these symphonies.
Apr 18, 2024 · An employee of the Russian Defense Ministry’s military-themed park outside Moscow has been arrested on treason charges, the BBC Russian service reported Thursday. Nikolai Martynov, 26, worked...
Sep 6, 2023 · Quotes. Dive deep into Mikhail Lermontov's The Demon with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion.
is a set of sixty drawings by Nikolai Martynov, mostly of ecclesiastical antiquities. They reveal much about the nature of Victorian interest in Russian art and the museum’s role in shaping it.
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This is a brief biographical sketch of the military career of Major-General of Tank Troops Nikolai Markovich Martynov. He was a general during World War Two.
