Between 1829 and 1841 - in just twelve years - Russia lost three of its most remarkable poets. On January 30, 1829, Alexander Sergeyevich Griboedov died tragically. He was brutally mauled by a mob that attacked the Russian embassy in Tehran. On January 27, 1837, Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was mortally wounded in a duel. On July 15, 1841, 27-year-old Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov was shot dead in a duel near Pyatigorsk. All three lived, created, acted, as their conscience told them, without regard to the fact that their actions could cost them their lives.