Mikhail Lermontov
Author of A Hero of Our Time
About the Author
One of Russia's greatest nineteenth-century poets, Lermontov was at first an officer in an elite Guards regiment. Because of the views he expressed in a poem written on the death of Pushkin in 1837, he was arrested, tried, and transferred to the Caucasus. The poem, a passionate condemnation of the show more St. Petersburg elite for inciting Pushkin's ill-fated confrontation with D'Anthes, brought Lermontov instant fame. He returned to the capital a year later and began to publish regularly; two volumes of poems and the novel A Hero of Our Time appeared in 1840. Next year, as punishment for a duel, he was sent again to a line regiment in the Caucasus, where he distinguished himself in battle. In July 1841 he was killed in his last duel, the consequence of his own quarrelsome conduct. Lermontov was strongly influenced by Byron and Schiller, writing striking confessional poems that presented him in typically romantic defiance toward society. In his final years, he wrote more reflective and philosophical lyrics, as well as longer narrative poems, also derived from Byronic models. The most important of these is The Demon (1839), on which he worked for a number of years. The story of a fallen angel's love for a woman, it has provided Russian literature and art with a powerful archetype. Besides poetry, Lermontov also wrote plays and fiction, of which A Hero of Our Time is the most important. Made up of several tales by different narrators, the novel centers on Pechorin---a seminal example of the egotistical nineteenth-century "superfluous man," a specifically Russian derivative of the Byronic hero. Both this protagonist and Lermontov's complex narrative technique gave a powerful stimulus to Russian realist fiction. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Carte de visite from late 1880s (George Kennan Papers, LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-128263)
Works by Mikhail Lermontov
The lay of Tsar Ivan Vassilyevich, his young oprichnik, and the stouthearted merchant Kalashnikov (1983) 23 copies
Werken 21 copies
Собрание сочинений в 4-х томах 8 copies
Valik luuletusi 6 copies
Полное собрание сочинений 2 5 copies
Полное собрание сочинений 1 5 copies
Werken 5 copies
Z plamene a jasu 5 copies
Poeeme 5 copies
Полное собрание сочинений 4 4 copies
Полное собрание сочинений 3 4 copies
Sochineniya Tom 2 3 copies
Hancer 3 copies
Princidino Mary 3 copies
Mikhail Lermontov Selected Works 3 copies
Gedichte [Zweisprachig] — Author — 3 copies
Избранные Произведения 3 copies
Rivers and fireworks : including Evening light on the Moselle as described by Ausonius & The demon by Michael Lermontov (1980) 2 copies
Prosa breve e inéditos 2 copies
Wiersze i poematy 2 copies
Sotjinenija 2 copies
Lirika 2 copies
Sochineniya Tom 1 2 copies
Kaŭkazaj rakontoj 2 copies
بطل من هذا الزمان 2 copies
Elektitaj versaĵoj 2 copies
Poezija: Drama: Proza 2 copies
Oysgeveylṭe ṿerḳ 2 copies
Стихотворения 2 copies
Izbrannye sochineniia 2 copies
Las memorias de Pechorin 2 copies
Poems 2 copies
Стихи - сказка Ашик Кериб 1 copy
Izbrannye stikhotvoreniia 1 copy
Смерть Поэта 1 copy
Stikhotvorenii︠a︡ ; poėmy 1 copy
Stikhotvoryeniya 1 copy
DEMONI 1 copy
আমাদের সময়কার নায়ক 1 copy
Stikhotvorenija i poemy 1 copy
Rusaj noveloj 1 copy
Selected works 1 copy
Полное собрание сочинений 1 copy
Белеет парус одинокий... 1 copy
Испанцы 1 copy
Избранная лирика 1 copy
Selected Works 1 copy
Избранное 1 copy
Стихи. Сказка Ашик-Кериб 1 copy
Ashik-Kerib 1 copy
" Lermontov Mikhail I͡Ur'evich.Kartiny i risunki poėta". (Illi͡ustrat͡sii k ego proizvedenii͡am.) 1 copy
[Works] 1 copy
A Russian Gentleman 1 copy
Selected Works 1 copy
Prose and Poetry of Mikhail Lermontov: A Hero of Our Time, The Demon, The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov, Death of… (2020) 1 copy
Luuletusi 1 copy
Démon : Východní zkazka 1 copy
Wadim : Romanfragm. / Michail Lermontow. [Aus d. Russ. übertr. u. mit e. Anh. vers. von Marga Erb] 1 copy
Un eroe del nostro tempo 1 copy
Poems 1 copy
Stesk rozumu 1 copy
Poemy : [výbor z epiky] 1 copy
Lyrika 1 copy
Valda dikter 1 copy
La principessa Ligovskaja 1 copy
Il demone e il novizio 1 copy
Кавказский пленник 1 copy
Песня про купца Калашникова 1 copy
Поэмы, Герой нашего времени 1 copy
Mcyri : poemo 1 copy
Novaj Versaĵoj 1 copy
Бэла. Тамань. 1 copy
Associated Works
Opowieści niesamowite : groza i niesamowitość w prozie rosyjskiej XIX i początku XX w. (1990) — Contributor — 5 copies
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- Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich
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- 1814-10-03 (julian date)
1814-10-15 (gregorian date) - Date of death
- 1841-07-15 (julian date)
1841-07-27 (gregorian date) - Burial location
- Tarkhany, Russian Empire
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- Russia
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- Moscow, Russian Empire
- Place of death
- Pyatigorsk, Russian Empire
- Cause of death
- duel
- Places of residence
- Moscow, Russian Empire
St Petersburg, Russian Empire - Education
- University of Moscow
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