Nikolai Martynov

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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,^[1] despite Lermontov's supposedly having made it known that he was going to shoot into the air.^{[citation needed]}