Hero of our time. Selected works. Lermontov M.Yu.

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (1814-1841)-Russian poet, prose writer, playwright, artist. His work with its depth and musicality has a new heyday in poetry and prose of the 19th century. “Reading any line that came out of Lermontov’s pen, as if you are listening to musical chords and at the same time follow the gaze behind the shocked strings, from which they are torn with an invisible hand.” - wrote V.G. Belinsky. Lermontov’s works influenced both his contemporaries and poets and writers of the next generations - they, as A.A. Blok, “entered the flesh and blood of Russian literature.”

This collection includes the author’s chosen works-poems of different years, poems “Izmail-Bay”, “Mtsyri”, “Song of pro. merchant Kalashnikov ”,“ Demon ”, the drama“ Masquerade ”and the novel“ Hero of our time. ”

Edition is accompanied by illustrations of artists of the XIX - early XX century V. A. Polyakov, M. Zichi, V.M. Vasnetsov and others, including rather rare ones. Also in the book you will find fragments of paintings and drawings of Lermontov himself.