The detachment of Lieutenant Lermontov. Sribny I.L.

1840 - the most difficult period of the Caucasian war. It was at that moment that Lieutenant Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov was seconded to the army, to the post of commander of the 13th musketeral company of the Tengin Infantry Regiment. In the Caucasus, a young lieutenant will prove himself as a selflessly courageous Russian officer, directly participating in several battles, and a little later commanding the detachment of the Cossacks who perform the most risky instructions of the intelligence command in deep rear of the Imam Shamil. A contemporary wrote about his fighters: “They all made a war on their craft. Danger, removal, deprivation and revelry became their slogan. They despised firearms and were cut with checkers and daggers. They belonged to the equestrian team of hunters, who was in charge of Lieutenant Mikhail Lermontov.. ? "