Hero of our time

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov was born in 1814 in Moscow. The Lermontov clan originates from George Lermont, a native of Scotland, captured during the siege of the Belaya fortress (17th century) The poet’s father was an officer, his mother belonged to the noble family of the Stolypin. When Misha was three years old, she died, and the education of the boy was taken by the grandmother, who lived on the estate of Tarkhana of the Penza province. There he received excellent home education (studied foreign languages, drawing, music) After a serious illness, which had for a long time riveted the boy to bed, his grandmother took him to the Caucasus in 1824 to the waters. Here, Misha added to reading and mastered not only European languages ​​(he read English, German and French writers in the originals), but also studied European culture and literature perfectly.
In 1827, Mikhail entered the Moscow noble boarding house, where he began to engage in poetry. In 1830 he was enrolled in Moscow University for the Moral and Political Department, and then to the verbal. In the same year, his first poem “Spring” was printed in the journal Athenaea.
In 1832, Lermontov entered the school of guards supporters and cavalry junkers and in November 1834 was promoted to cornets of the Life Guards of the Hussar regiment. Lermontov glorified the poem "The Death of the Poet", written in 1837 for the death of Pushkin. But the last lines of the poem with sharp attacks against the highest aristocracy caused the anger of Tsar Nicholas I. Lermontov was arrested and transferred to the ensign to the Nizhny Novgorod Dragoon regiment to the Caucasus. Here he wrote the poem "Song about the merchant Kalashnikov", the poems "Duma", "Poet", "Tripalma".
In 1841, his quarrel with a retired Major Martynov took place, which ended with a duel, on which Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov was killed.
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