Who is Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (; Russian: Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов; 15 October [O.S. 3 October] 1814 – 27 July [O.S. 15 July] 1841) was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837 and the greatest figure in Russian Romanticism. 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.

Biography

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov was born 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 descen...
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Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov Poems

  • The Palm Branch Of Palestine
    Palm branch of Palestine, oh tell me,
    In that far distant home-land fair,
    Wast rooted in the mountain gravel
    Or sprung from some vale garden rare? ...
  • Native Land
    I love my native land with such perverse affection!
    My better judgement has no standing here.
    Not glory, won in bloody action,
    nor yet that calm demeanour, trusting and austere, ...
  • The Prayer
    When faints the heart for sorrow,
    In life's hard, darkened hour,
    My spirit breathes a wondrous prayer
    Full of love's inward power. ...
  • To The Clouds
    Clouds--ye eternal wanderers in hunting grounds of air,
    High o'er the verdant Steppes, wide through the blue of heaven--
    Coursing fraternal,--say, must ye exiled as I
    From the beloved North to the far South be driven? ...
  • The Dispute
    Once 'mid group of native mountains
    Hot dispute arose,
    Elbrus, angry, did with Kasbek
    Argument propose. ...
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Heart 14 Soul 12 I Love You 11 Love 11 God 10 Cold 9 Sun 8 Alone 8 Peace 8 Earth 8


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Ellenoreclemen1: the demon by mikhail yuryevich lermontov - famous poems, famous poets. - all poetry
Uniquemongolia: mikhail lermontov, (october 15, 1814, moscow, russia—died july 27, 1841, pyatigorsk), the leading russian romantic poet & author of the novel geroy nashego vremeni (1840; a hero of our time), which was to have a profound influence on later russian writers.
Nanovicnd: the film's powerful & haunting end: gorbachev sings a poem by mikhail yuryevich lermontov, one which the poet is said to have written the night before he died in a duel. meeting gorbachev is worth revisiting, esp. now as we try to better understand russia & its present aggression
Sergiophdreams: omg....❤️❤️!! “i go out on the road alone” mikhail yuryevich lermontov
Molliepiano: rachmaninoff's piece the rock, is a tone poem for orchestra. this is a type of piece that depicts a story or scene. this poem by mikhail yuryevich lermontov is printed in the score: "the golden cloud slept through the night upon the breast of the giant-rock" /1
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We 're making life seem like a man-killing race,
With our nerves all on edge and our jaws firmly set
We go rushing along; with our brows lined with sweat
And our cheeks pale and drawn every minute we dash,
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