Hero of our time. Lermontov M.Yu.

So many literary heroes over the past two centuries have lost relevance and have been sent to a book non -existence, and Pechorin, a cold cynic who does not believe in high ideals living “not with heart, but a selfish life, who throws women, who throws women. And fearlessly experiencing fate, still more lively than all living things. This personality is contradictory and ambiguous, because Lermontov wrote the first psychological novel in Russian prose.

Try to figure it out impartially - do you agree with the critics who wrote that such a depraved hero is an insult for Russia, or you are on the side of Belinsky, confident that Lermontov showed the tragedy of the educated people (and maybe our ?) time?