Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov
(1814 - 1841) Russia
Poet and novelist
Romantic poet and novelist, born in Moscow. He received a commission in the Guards, but in 1837 was exiled to the Caucasus for a revolutionary poem on the death of Pushkin, which criticized Court values. The romantic scenery of the Caucasus deeply influenced his poetry.
A great writer of Russia's Golden Age, Mikhail Lermontov also had some familiarity with gay sex. In two bawdy poems written when he was 20, he describes the sexual antics of his fellow classmates in the Cavalry Cadet School.
After returning to St. Petersburg in 1838, he published his psychological novel A Hero of Our Times and a volume of poems October (1840). He was again exiled to the Caucasus in the same year.
On July 25, 1841, at Pyatigorsk, fellow army officer Nikolai Martynov, who felt hurt by one of Lermontov's jokes, challenged Lermontov to a duel. The duel took place two days later at the foot of Mashuk mountain. Lermontov was killed by Martynov's first shot.
He is the icon of the gay underground for his raunchy army poetry. And it is said that he was killed in the duel because, rather than drawing his gun, he drew his penis and masturbated in front of his opponent...
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