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Death
Petőfi is believed to have been killed in action during the battle of Segesvár by the Imperial Russian Army. A Russian military doctor recorded an account of Petőfi's death in his diary. As his body was never officially found, rumours of Petőfi's survival persisted. In his autobiographical roman a clef Political Fashions (Politikai divatok, 1862), Mór Jókai imagined his late friend's "resurrection". In the novel Petőfi (the character named Pusztafi) returns ten years later as a shabby, déclassé figure who has lost his faith in everything, including poetry.

Though for many years his death at Segesvár had been assumed, in the late 1980s Soviet investigators found archives that revealed that after the battle about 1,800 Hungarian prisoners of war were marched to Siberia. Alternative theories suggest that he was one of them and died of tuberculosis in 1856. In 1990, an expedition was organised to Barguzin, Siberia, where archaeologists claimed to have unearthed Petőfi's skeleton. Further more, in Hungary they have a saying after him. "Eltűnt, mint Petőfi a ködben" (Disappeared, like Petőfi in the fog)

Death
Petőfi is believed to have been killed in action during the battle of Segesvár by the Imperial Russian Army. He was last seen alive by a volunteer military surgeon named József Lengyel, who described seeing Petofi attempt to flee before being encircled by Russian cavalry. After the battle, An Austrian colonel claimed to have seen a corpse matching the physical and clothing descriptions of Sandor Petofi. As his body was never officially found, rumours of Petőfi's survival persisted. In the late 1980s Soviet investigators found archives that suggested that after the battle about 1,800 Hungarian prisoners of war were marched to Siberia. Alternative theories suggest that he was one of them and died of tuberculosis in 1856. In 1990, an expedition was organised to Barguzin, Siberia, where archaeologists claimed to have unearthed Petőfi's skeleton. However, this claim has since been discredited.

Edits
1. Removed the un-cited claim about the Russian military doctor's diary. There is no mention of this as far as I can tell in any Russian, Hungarian, or English publications. (I think it is likely that this was a mistaken reference to the doctor that I described in my addition.)

2. Addition: “He was last seen alive by a volunteer military surgeon named József Lengyel, who described seeing Petofi attempt to flee before being encircled by Russian cavalry.”

3. Addition: “After the battle, An Austrian colonel claimed to have seen a corpse matching the physical and clothing descriptions of Sandor Petofi.”

4. Removed the reference to Mór Jókai's novel with the intention that it be moved to a section regarding tributes and memorials.

5. Merged the two paragraphs.

6. Altered the sentence structure of following sentence because those claims have been debunked and it is also contested that there were ever any prisoners of war taken.

7. Removed original citation of Encyclopedia Britannica because the linked article no longer supports that claim.

8. Addition: “However, this claim has since been discredited.”

9. Removed last sentence because it was irrelevant and poorly worded.