Nikolai Solomonovich Martynov (ru|link=no|'''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,[1] despite Lermontov's supposedly having made it known that he was going to shoot into the air.