Mikhail Lermontov, Russian author, poet, and painter (died 1841)

Mikhail Lermontov

Russian writer, poet and painter (1814–1841)

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov 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 Russian literature…