“I am like a sailor, born and bred on the deck of a pirate brig... whose soul has become accustomed to storms and battles.”

About Mikhail Lermontov

Author • Russian

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov was a seminal Russian Romantic writer, poet, and painter, often called 'the poet of the Caucasus.' Considered the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death, his work...