Nikolai Martynov

Nikolai Solomonovich Martynov (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.