Biographies and memoirs

Poems have a special place in Lermontov’s literary heritage. Over twelve years of his creative life, he wrote in whole or in part (if you count unfinished pl...

Lermontov's dramaturgy in the history of Russian culture and literature is a less significant phenomenon than his poetry and prose. This is explained to a ce...

Boris Sadovsky's novel is over, but a strong and unusual impression will probably haunt his reader for a long time. He came into contact with the prose of an...

In 1838, a short poem entitled “Treasurer” appeared in the third issue of the Sovremennik magazine founded by Pushkin. Its author was a young poet, whose nam...

Twenty years ago, on June 30, 1958, the famous Lermontov expert prof. Semenov turned to a group of Leningrad literary scholars with a proposal to jointly cre...

Neither in the writings and letters of Lermontov that have reached us, nor in the memoirs about him, there are any traces that would indicate his acquaintanc...

“Boyarin Orsha” has been little studied, although, without a doubt, it is one of Lermontov’s best poems. In this study, however, we cannot study it monograph...

The problem indicated in the title of this article, of course, can only be outlined in it, because it is very extensive and concerns the most fundamental fou...

In the history of the “Russian Chenier”, Lermontov’s work represents a special and very unique page.

For two, or even three decades, Karamzin’s “Letters...” were a school of feelings for Russian readers, and for writers a model of psychological prose. We can...

In 1910, the French Slavist E. Duchesne published an extensive work in Paris entitled “Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov. Life and creativity.” In the preface, Duc...