Pagine1814–1841 · Moscow, Russia · also known as Lermontov
Mikhail Lermontov was Russia’s great Romantic poet after Pushkin — and, with A Hero of Our Time (1840), the author of the first major Russian psychological novel. Its anti-hero Pechorin, a bored, brilliant officer in the Caucasus, became a type for a whole generation. Exiled to the Caucasus for a furious poem on Pushkin’s death, Lermontov wrote landscape and freedom poems such as Mtsyri, and, like Pushkin, was killed in a duel — at just 26.
Begin with A Hero of Our Time.
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Alexander Pushkin · Nikolai Gogol · Ivan Turgenev · Fyodor Dostoevsky · Leo Tolstoy · Ivan Goncharov · Anton Chekhov · Maxim Gorky · Mikhail Bulgakov · Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Mikhail Lermontov was Russia’s great Romantic poet after Pushkin — and, with A Hero of Our Time (1840), the author of the first major Russian psychological novel. Its anti-hero Pechorin, a bored, brilliant officer in the Caucasus, became a type for a whole generation.
A Hero of Our Time is usually considered Mikhail Lermontov’s best-known work, followed by Mtsyri, The Demon.
Most readers start with A Hero of Our Time.
Both refer to the same writer.
Yes — 1 of Mikhail Lermontov’s books are free to read online in Pagine, the free e-reader and reading tracker.