Mikhail Lermontov was descended from George Learmont, a Scottish officer who entered the Russian service in the early th century. His literary fame began
Russian bare-knuckle boxing, or pugilism, was suppressed because of the involved, but it has continued to thrive for centuries
Russian people famous all over the world – composers, writers, poets, painters, scientists, explorers, critics, architects, sculptors, ballet-dancers, art collectors
The Demon, as presented in art, has become a theme often employed to represent a madness that has developed within the artist. This demon can serve as both a muse […]
A Hero of Our Time (1840) by Mikhail Lermontov. Often referred to as Russia’s “first psychological novel,” A Hero of Our Time tells the tale of Pechorin, a
Russian literature: the body of written works produced in the Russian language, beginning with the Christianization of Kievan Rus in the late 10th century.
Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов (3 [15] октября 1814, Москва — 15 [27] июля 1841, Пятигорск) — русский
Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia and its émigrés and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was
A Hero of Our Time (Russian: Герой нашего времени, Geroy nashego vremeni) is a novel by Mikhail Lermontov, written in 1839, published in 1840, and
