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Monday, November 9, 2009
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Mikhail Lermontov, poet of the Caucasus
Writer, poet and painter. Born in 1814 and died in 1841, in a duel at the foot of the Mashuk mountain.
He once said tha the trouble with Russia was not that some people were suffering but that an immense number of people were suffering without realizing it.
I am not sure when Lermontov said those words, but they are still valid now, as they were back in the XIX century.
Tsar Nicholas I is reported to have reacted to Lermontov's death with the following words: "A dog's death for a dog". No wonder why.
Writer, poet and painter. Born in 1814 and died in 1841, in a duel at the foot of the Mashuk mountain.
He once said tha the trouble with Russia was not that some people were suffering but that an immense number of people were suffering without realizing it.
I am not sure when Lermontov said those words, but they are still valid now, as they were back in the XIX century.
Tsar Nicholas I is reported to have reacted to Lermontov's death with the following words: "A dog's death for a dog". No wonder why.
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