Demon

Eight editions, ten years of work with interruptions, a deeply personal work about the eternal confrontation of Good and Evil, which marked the end of Russian romanticism, - all this is about the poem "Demon". For the first time, Lermontov... addressed its concept as a fifteen-year-old boy, and since then the image of the Demon (the rebellious spirit, overwhelmed by passions and doomed to eternal loneliness) seemed like an obsession, entering the poet's creativity and haunting him until his tragic death. The collection also includes poems from different years, representing Lermontov's creative life before and after "Demon": "Corsair", "Criminal", "Two Brothers", "Two Slaves", "Giulio", "Azrael", "Angel of Death", "Confession", "Sailor", and "Tale for Children".