In memory of his 200th birthday, a biography documentary about him was released in Russia
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Mikhail Lermontov
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837 and the greatest figure in Russian Romanticism. His influence on Russian literature is felt in modern times, through his poetry, but also his prose, which founded the tradition of the Russian psychological…
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culture · Russian writer, poet and painter (1814–1841) · poet · translator · painter · novelist · playwright · military officer · writer · prose writer · bretteur · librettist · also Mikhail Lermontov, Michail Jur'evič Lermontov, Mikhail I︠U︡rʹevich Lermontov, Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov
Born 3 October 1814 · Died 15 July 1841 · Q46599
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2012· 1 entry
Azerbaijani movie "Ambassador of Morning", telling the story of another great poet, Abbasgulu Bakikhanov, Mikhail Lermontov was depicted by Oleg Amirbekov
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1956· 1 entry
“Reminiscences of Lenin by His Relatives”
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1936· 1 entry
As part of a scholarly edition of Lermontov's complete works, edited by Irakly Andronikov
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1856· 1 entry
In Berlin), becoming arguably the most popular unpublished Russian poem of the mid-19th century
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1841· 3 entries
Died 1841-07-15.
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Lermontov was killed in a duel with fellow officer Nikolai Martynov
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“No, it is not you I love so ardently...”
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1839· 1 entry
“In Memory of A. I. Odoyevsky”
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1838· 1 entry
“I look upon the future with fear...”
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1837· 4 entries
From the Caucasus, only to be thwarted by censors
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And the greatest figure in Russian Romanticism
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Lermontov dropped "Princess Ligovskaya" and never got back to it
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Due to Vasily Zhukovsky's efforts), was unique for its unexpected authenticity
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1835· 1 entry
It got re-worked several times – the author tried desperately to publish it
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1834· 1 entry
Studied at Nikolaevskaya Cavalry School (1832–1834).
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1832· 3 entries
“Fate brought us together by chance...”
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Lermontov tried his hand at prose for the first time
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Lermontov moved to Saint Petersburg and enrolled in the School of Cavalry Junkers and Ensign of the Guard, eventually joining the Life-Guard Hussar regiment
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1831· 1 entry
Lermontov's poetry ("The Reed", "Mermaid", "The Wish") started to get less confessional, more ballad-like
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1830· 2 entries
By the amateur Ateneum magazine, marked his informal publishing debut
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Lermontov met Natalya Ivanova (1813–1875), daughter of a Moscow playwright Fyodor Ivanov and had an affair with her, but little is known about it or why it ended
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1827· 1 entry
Lermontov moved to Moscow with his grandmother and joined the Moscow University's boarding school
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1825· 1 entry
While at the Caucasus, a girl of nine being the object of his desires
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1821· 1 entry
Returned to Tarkhany and spent the next six years there
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1819· 1 entry
And 1820, took him to the Caucasus where they stayed at her sister E
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1814· 1 entry
Born 1814-10-03.
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