5 works by Mikhail Lermontov you should read Of the many charismatic, romantic and tragic Russian poets, Mikhail Lermontov, born 200 years ago, was among the most beloved. Yet he died at the age of 26, and was surrounded by controversy even as a child and...
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5 works by Mikhail Lermontov you should read Of the many charismatic, romantic and tragic Russian poets, Mikhail Lermontov, born 200 years ago, was among the most beloved. Yet he died at the age of 26, and was surrounded by controversy even as a child and long after his untimely death. Lermontov became famous overnight: as Russia was mourning its greatest poet Aleksandr Pushkin, who had been killed in a duel, the 22-year-old cavalry officer wrote a bold and very emotional poem, “Death of a Poet.” The work became an instant hit in St. Petersburg. After it he wrote many other works, and here is the list of 5 works that you should read. 1. “The Sail”. Written by an 18-year old Lermontov, “The Sail” turned out to be his most-quoted and popular poem, which creates a metaphor that compares a poet’s restless soul to a stranded sailboat seeking not refuge, but a tempest, “as if in tempests there were peace.” 2. “Masquerade”. Written in 1835, this verse play tells the story of a nobleman with a
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