59 Facts About Mikhail Lermontov

Mikhail Lermontov's father, Yuri Petrovich, was a military officer who married Maria Mikhaylovna Arsenyeva, a young heiress from an aristocratic family.

Mikhail Lermontov provided excellent home education, nurturing his talents in languages, music, and painting.

In 1827, Mikhail Lermontov moved to Moscow with his grandmother and joined the Moscow University's boarding school.

Mikhail Lermontov excelled academically, influenced by his tutors Alexey Merzlyakov and Semyon Rayich, and started to write poetry.

In 1832, Mikhail 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.

In 1841, Mikhail Lermontov was killed in a duel with fellow officer Nikolai Martynov.

Mikhail Lermontov's death marked the loss of one of Russia's most promising literary talents.

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov was born in Moscow into the Lermontov family, and he grew up in the village of Tarkhany.

Mikhail Lermontov had been captured by the Russian troops in Poland in the early 17th century, during the reign of Mikhail Fyodorovich Romanov.

Father and son separated and, at the age of three, Mikhail Lermontov began a spoilt and luxurious life with his doting grandmother and numerous relatives.

Mikhail Lermontov received an extensive home education, became fluent in French and German, learned to play several musical instruments and proved a gifted painter.

Mikhail Lermontov didn't stay for long and soon another Frenchman, Gendrot, replaced him, soon joined by Mr Windson, a respectable English teacher recommended by the Uvarov family.

The intellectual atmosphere in which Mikhail Lermontov grew up resembled that experienced by Aleksandr Pushkin, though the domination of French had begun to give way to a preference for English, and Lamartine shared popularity with Byron.

Positive influence came from Mikhail Lermontov's German governess Christina Rhemer, a religious woman who introduced the boy to the idea of every man, even if that man was a serf, deserving respect.

Mikhail Lermontov excelled at the 1828 examinations; he recited a Zhukovsky poem, performed a violin etude and won the first prize for his literary essay.

Mikhail Lermontov took an active part in the notorious 1831 Malov scandal, but wasn't formally reprimanded.

Deeply affected by his son's alienation, Yuri Mikhail Lermontov left Arsenieva's house for good, only to die a short time later of consumption.

All the while, judging by his diaries, Mikhail Lermontov, maintained a keen interest in European politics.

In mid-1832, Mikhail Lermontov accompanied by grandmother, traveled to Saint Petersburg, with a view of joining the Saint Petersburg University's second-year course.

Mikhail Lermontov had to indulge mostly in physical competitions, one of which resulted in a horse-riding accident which left him with a broken knee that produced a limp.

Mikhail Lermontov's voyage back was a prolonged one, he made a point of staying wherever he was welcome.

Mikhail Lermontov often visited us and talked of all sort of things, personal, social and political.

Mikhail Lermontov appeared to be a low-brow realist, unwilling to let his imagination fly, which was strange, considering how high his poetry soared on its mighty wings.

Mikhail Lermontov visited Yelizavetgrad, then stayed in Moscow and Saint Petersburg to enjoy himself at dancing parties and to revel in his immense popularity.

Warmly welcomed at the houses of Karamzin, Alexandra Smirnova, Odoyevsky and Rostoptchina, Mikhail Lermontov entered the most prolific phase of his short literary career.

In those days Mikhail Lermontov took part in gathering and sorting out Pushkin's documents and unpublished poems.

In February 1838, Mikhail Lermontov arrived at Novgorod to join his new regiment.

At this point, in Petersburg, Mikhail Lermontov started working on A Hero of Our Time, a novel which later earned him recognition as one of the founding fathers of Russian prose.

In January 1839, Andrey Krayevsky, now at the helm of Otechestvennye Zapiski, invited Mikhail Lermontov to become a regular contributor.

In early 1840 Mikhail Lermontov insulted one of these men, Ernest de Barante, the son of the French ambassador, in the presence of Shcherbatova.

In early May 1840 Mikhail Lermontov left Saint Petersburg, but arrived at Stavropol only on 10 June, having spent a whole month in Moscow, visiting Nikolai Gogol, to whom he recited his then-new poem Mtsyri.

Mikhail Lermontov "has been charged with the commandment of a Cossack troopers' unit whose duty it was to head into the enemy first".

Mikhail Lermontov became immensely popular with his men, whom regular army officers referred to as "the international gang of reckless thugs".

Mikhail Lermontov led the gang of dirty thugs who, without ever using firearms, charged Chechen auls, led partisan wars and were calling themselves 'the Lermontov army'.

In early 1841 Arsenyeva received permission from the Minister of Defense, Count Kleinmichel, for Mikhail Lermontov to visit Saint Petersburg.

Mikhail Lermontov had been published, Mikhail Lermontov, according to Skabichevsky, started to treat his poetic mission seriously.

Besides, despite General Grabbe's insistence, Mikhail Lermontov's name had been dropped from the list of officers eligible for awards.

Mikhail Lermontov approached a seer and asked if the time would ever come when he'd be allowed to retire.

In Pyatigorsk Mikhail Lermontov enjoyed himself, feeding on his notoriety of a social misfit, his fame as a poet second only to Pushkin and his success with A Hero of Our Time.

Mikhail Lermontov allegedly made it known that he was going to shoot into the air.

In January 1842, the Tsar issued an order allowing the coffin to be transported to Tarkhany, where Mikhail Lermontov was laid to rest at the family cemetery.

Many of Mikhail Lermontov's verses were discovered posthumously in his notebooks.

Mikhail Lermontov was a romantic who seemed to be continuously struggling with strong passions.

Mikhail Lermontov fell in love for the first time in 1825, while at the Caucasus, a girl of nine being the object of his desires.

At sixteen Mikhail Lermontov fell in love with Yekaterina Sushkova, a friend of his cousin Sasha Vereshchagina, whom he often visited in Srednikovo village.

In 1830, Mikhail Lermontov met Natalya Ivanova, daughter of a Moscow playwright Fyodor Ivanov and had an affair with her, but little is known about it or why it ended.

In December 1834, Mikhail Lermontov met his old sweetheart Yekaterina Sushkova at a ball in Saint Petersburg and decided to have a revenge: first he seduced, then, after a while dropped her, making the story public.

Mikhail Lermontov was unlucky in love and believed he always would be: fate had ordained it.

In 1831, Mikhail Lermontov's poetry started to get less confessional, more ballad-like.

In 1832, Mikhail Lermontov tried his hand at prose for the first time.

Arrested, jailed and sent to the Caucasus in 1837, Mikhail Lermontov dropped "Princess Ligovskaya" and never got back to it.

Devoid of cold skepticism or icy irony, Mikhail Lermontov's poetry is full instead of typically Russian contempt for life and material values.

Tellingly, while Pushkin saw the European influence as a healthy alternative to the patriarchal ways of Caucasian natives, Mikhail Lermontov tended to idealize the local communities' centuries-proven customs, their morality codex and the will to fight for freedom and independence to the bitter end.

Mikhail Lermontov's Russian is, at times, almost as crude as Stendhal's in French; his similes and metaphors are utterly commonplace, his hackneyed epithets are only redeemed by occasionally being incorrectly used.

Mikhail Lermontov's prose is the best Russian prose ever written, if we judge by the standards of perfection and not by those of wealth.

The crew of Soyuz TMA-21 selected Tarkhany as their call sign, after the estate where Mikhail Lermontov spent his childhood and where his remains are preserved.

On 3 October 2014, a monument to Mikhail Lermontov was unveiled in the Scottish village of Earlston, the place being selected due to a suggested association of Mikhail Lermontov's descent with Thomas the Rhymer.

Mikhail Lermontov has been depicted in numerous movies and TV series.

In 2012 Azerbaijani movie "Ambassador of Morning", telling the story of another great poet, Abbasgulu Bakikhanov, Mikhail Lermontov was depicted by Oleg Amirbekov.