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Mikhail Lermontov

Born

in Moscow, Russian Empire

October 15, 1814

Died

July 27, 1841

Genre

Fiction, Poetry

Influences

Alexander Pushkin, James Macpherson, Lord Byron. Walter Scott ...more

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Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов), a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", was the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death. His influence on later Russian literature is still felt in modern times, not only through his poetry, but also by his prose.

Lermontov died in a duel like his great predecessor poet, Aleksander Pushkin.

Even more so tragically strange (if not to say fatalistic) that both poets described in their major works fatal duel outcomes, in which the main characters (Onegin and Pechorin) were coming out victorious.
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Average rating: 4.12 · 75,086 ratings · 2,842 reviews · 389 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Hero of Our Time 4.11 avg rating — 59,724 ratings — published 1839 — 358 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Demon 4.23 avg rating — 5,195 ratings — published 1839 — 109 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Мцыри by Mikhail Lermontov, Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов 3.94 avg rating — 2,462 ratings — published 1839 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Бородино by Mikhail Lermontov, Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов 4.16 avg rating — 1,487 ratings — published 1837 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Маскарад by Mikhail Lermontov, Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов 4.12 avg rating — 1,409 ratings — published 1835 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Герой нашего времени: Стихотворения. Поэмы. Роман by Mikhail Lermontov, Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов 4.32 avg rating — 814 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Лирика by Mikhail Lermontov, Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов 4.35 avg rating — 566 ratings — published 1836 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Поэмы / Герой нашего времени by Mikhail Lermontov, Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов 4.33 avg rating — 370 ratings — published 1839	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Стихотворения и поэмы by Mikhail Lermontov, Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов 4.37 avg rating — 290 ratings — published 1841 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Бэла by Mikhail Lermontov, Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов 4.19 avg rating — 215 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Mikhail Lermontov (?)

“Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.”
― Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

tags: fire, love

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“In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.”
― Lermontov a, Un Héros de notre temps. (précédé de) La Princesse Ligovskoï

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“I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.”
― Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

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Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

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Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov

7 votes, 16.3%

A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov

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Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov

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The Life of Arseniev: Youth by Ivan Bunin

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