Lermontov
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LERMONTOV, Mikhail Yurievich (1814-41), Russian poet. He studied at Moscow University (1830-1832). He finished the St. Petersburg school for guard sergeants and cavalry cadets in 1834. In 1837 he was sent to the army in the Caucasus for his poem ?Death of a Poet? (concerning the death of Pushkin). Killed in a duel in Pyatigorsk. Disappointment in reality, characteristic for the post-Decembrist mentality, skepticism, striving towards an ideal of a free and rebellious personality all fed his early romantic poems, the dream of spiritual peace in his later lyrics ( Duma, It's Boring and Sad, Prayer, The Prophet, I Go Out to the Road Alone, the poem the Novice, 1839; the play Mascarade, 1835) Many of Lermontov?s works are pierced by civil enthusiasm and patriotic feeling [the unfinished social historical novel Vadim (1832-34), the collection of poetry Borodino, the Poet, Motherland].The poem the Demon (finished in 1839) is the symbolic embodiment of the idea of rebellion against ?world order?, the tragedy of solitude. Lermontov introduced to Russian literature poetry marked by an energy of thought and tunefulness. The novel ?Hero of Our Time? (1840) is saturated with deep social reflection and psychological restraint, the peak of Lermontov?s realism.
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