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Why was Mikhail Lermontov sent to the Caucasus a second time?
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Mikhail Lermontov
Mikhail Lermontov.
Mikhail Lermontov was sent to the Caucasus for a second time in 1840 after being brought to trial before a military tribunal for a duel with the son of the French ambassador in St. Petersburg. This duel served as a pretext for the authorities to punish the poet, and on the instructions of Tsar Nicholas I, he was sentenced to exile in an infantry regiment stationed in the Caucasus that was preparing for dangerous military operations.1