A Hero of Our Time. Poems

Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov is a younger contemporary of Pushkin and the second greatest figure in Russian poetry of the 19th century after him. In 2024, we celebrate the 210th anniversary of the poet's birth. Fate allowed him to live only... 26 years and just 13 years to enter the history of world literature. Lermontov's creative evolution was rapid: overcoming romantic rhetoric and summarizing the most important artistic discoveries of his time, Lermontov essentially summarized the golden age of Russian poetry and opened up new horizons for it. This edition includes the novel "A Hero of Our Time," which initiated the era of Russian psychological prose, as well as the most famous poems, including "Mtsyri," "Demon," "The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov," and others.