This article is about the poet. For the Russian theater director and theoretician of art, see Pyotr Mikhailovich Yershov.
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).