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How did Mikhail Lermontov return to St. Petersburg after his first exile?
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Mikhail Lermontov was allowed to return to St. Petersburg in 1838 following his first exile to the Caucasus due to the zealous intercession of his grandmother and the influential poet V.A. Zhukovsky.1