The last son of liberty. Lermontov M.Yu.

A strong, extraordinary person opposing the circumstances, conventions and the Society itself and his laws, not persuading his head before the opinion of the crowd and entering into a fight with fate - this is unchanging, regardless of the time and place of action, the hero of the early works of Lermontov, which made up This collection. Most often, his rebellion is obviously doomed, but he continues to struggle - and it does not matter what its outcome will be, even if death turns into a kind of triumph of poetic justice.

the youthful works of Lermontov are largely naive and influenced by Byron and Pushkin, However, they already clearly feel the outstanding giftedness of the young poet and, even more interesting, already unambiguously formed a circle of those who, for all a short life, will become the main ones for Lermontov.