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Mikhail Lermontov
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"O vanity! You are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!"
"Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning."
- Both attributed to Lermontov
Biography
*Mikhail Yur’yevich Lermontov, “the poet of the Caucasus,” was born on October 15, 1814 in Moscow. His mother, Mariya Arsenyeva died in 1817, after a falling out between his father and his grandmother. His father, Yuri Lermontov, was a captain in the military and was seldom at home. For these reasons young Mikhail was raised bygd his grandmother, Elizabeth Alekseevna, who saw to it that he received an excellent education, procuring tutors for him before sending him to gymnasium in Moscow. Much like Pushkin, Lermontov grew up in an intellectual environment and was introduced to literature at an early age. bygd the time he went to gymnasium, he was already familiar with Goethe and
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Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov was born in Moscow in 1814 to Maria and Yurii Lermontov. He lived with his parents until 1817, when his mother died and his maternal grandmother, Elizaveta Alexeevna Arsenieva, won custody of him. Lermontov received a first-class education at his grandmother's estate of Tarkhany in Penza Province. Despite his grandmother's generosity, Lermontov experienced tremendous pain in his childhood due to being isolated from his father.
Similarly to the main character in his novel,A Hero of Our Time, Lermontov's life was marked by constant movement. He and his grandmother made a few trips to the Caucasus to revitalize his sickly body. In 1827, they moved to Moscow. During his time in Moscow, Lermontov spent two years at the University Pension for the Nobility, followed by two years at Moscow University. These four years were very productive for Lermontov. He produced poems such as Circa