Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov is a Russian poet of the 19th century. His works still excite the hearts and minds of readers, and not only in our country. In addition to beautiful poems, he left his prose works and paintings to his descendants. If you want to know more about the life of the famous classic, then our article, which describes a short biography of Lermontov, will be interesting to you.
Childhood and youth
The poet was born in Moscow in 1814 on the night of October 14-15. The upbringing of the young Lermontov was carried out by his grandmother, and this happened because his mother died only three years after the birth of her son. Having moved to live in the Penza province, the boy begins to study at home, learn new knowledge and learn foreign languages. Grandmother paid great attention to this aspect of her grandson’s life and tried to give
all that his parents could not give him. In 1825, Lermontov first came to the Caucasus, which sinks into his soul. Many of his works, written later, are saturated with love and craving for everything connected with him. 1827 is the year in which the young poet enters a humanitarian boarding house and begins to write his first poems. After receiving secondary education, the young man enters the guard, where he serves until the start of training at the university.
Short biography of Lermontov. Student years
In 1830, Mikhail Yuryevich entered the moral and political department of the university, and the first free-thinking thoughts began to ripen in his head, the spirit of rebellion pervaded him. In the years of study, Lermontov reaches a peak in his lyrical work. And this is naturally connected with love. At first, the poet’s heart was full of love for Ekaterina Smushkova, and later for the daughter of the then-famous playwright F.F. Ivanov, Natalya Ivanova. The poetry of these years is distinguished by romanticism, sensuality, shows all the delights of youthful life and love.
Short biography of Lermontov. Service
In 1832, Lermontov moved to St. Petersburg and refused to continue his studies, since the local university did not want to take into account all the sciences and subjects that he studied in Moscow. And then he decides to continue to serve and go on
in the footsteps of his father, also a military man. In 1835, M. Yu. Lermontov (a brief biography of which is set forth in this article) graduated from the School of Guard Ensigns with the rank of cornet. He has already written such works as “Masquerade”, “Sashka” and many others. In 1837, the poet leaves to serve in the Caucasus and, imbued with the spirit of the local people, writes his famous work "Borodino". And a year later, thanks to good connections, he was again transferred to St. Petersburg, where he continues to write his works. In the 40s, Lermontov again went to the Caucasus, but he already had to participate in battles and show remarkable successes in military affairs.
Short biography of Lermontov. Creation
Lermontov was recognized as a playwright and poet, but there were also those who did not consider him a genius and criticized his every work. The number of dissatisfied increased after the publication of the novel “Hero of Our Time”. Lermontov was considered a freethinker, a man without moral and moral principles. Nicholas I even refused to reward the poet for military successes, since he considered him an anti-monarchist.
M. Yu. Lermontov, poet, classic, truly a “hero of his time”, died in a duel in 1841 at the hands of his enemy Nikolai Martynov.