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Mikhail Lermontov

Short biography: Mikhail Lermontov in Great Lives

About Mikhail Lermontov

Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) was a Russian Romantic poet and novelist, exiled to the Caucasus for his verse and killed in a duel at twenty-six.

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A Hero of Our Time

1840 · 19th Century · Novel

A Hero of Our Time, published in 1840, is Mikhail Lermontov's only completed novel and one of the founding works of Russian prose fiction. It is made up of five linked stories about Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin, a young officer serving in the Caucasus, told from different points of view.