Uznik lermontov biography

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          He remained at Oxford as a lecturer from until , except for the year , which he spent in Moscow, assigned to the U.S.-British.

        1. Poet, novelist, and dramatist.
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        3. Lermontov died at the age of Balakirev had a breakdown at the age of After about ten years he resumed composing but at rather a slow pace.
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          5. Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov Edit Profile

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          Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus".

          His influence on later Russian literature is still felt in modern times, not only through his poetry, but also through his prose, which founded the tradition of the Russian psychological novel.

          Background

          Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov was born on October 3, 1814 in Moscow into the respectable noble family of Lermontov, and he grew up in the village of Tarkhany (now Lermontovo in Penza Oblast).

          His paternal family descended from the Scottish family of Learmonth, and can be traced to Yuri (George) Learmonth, a Scottish officer in the Polish-Lithuanian service who settled in Russia in the middle of the 17th century.

          Lermontov's father, Yuri Petrovich Lermontov, like his father before him, followed a military career.

          Having moved up the ranks to captain, he marrie