This article is about the poet. For the Russian theater director and theoretician of art, see Pyotr Mikhailovich Yershov.
Portrait by Nikolay Madzhi (Maggi) (late 1850s)
Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov (Russian: Пётр Па́влович Ершо́в; 6 March [O.S. 22 February] 1815 – 30 August [O.S. 18 August] 1869) was a Russian poet and author of the fairy-tale poem The Little Humpbacked Horse (Konyok-Gorbunok).
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