Borodino. A Tale and Poems

Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov (1814-1841) - a Russian poet, prose writer, playwright, and a bright representative of the Golden Age of Russian literature. He was born in Moscow into a family of an officer. His mother, Maria Mikhaylovna, died when the... boy was not even 3 years old. The future poet was raised by his maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Alexeyevna Arsenyeva, and he spent his childhood in her estate T Arkhanes (Penza Province).
Initially, the future poet received home education. From 1828 to 1830, he studied at a boarding house at Moscow University, where he also wrote his first poems. From 1830 to 1832, M.Yu. Lermontov studied at Moscow University but, not completing the course, submitted a request for expulsion. In 1832 he entered the School of Guards' Ensigns and Cavalry Cadets, after which he was assigned to a hussar regiment.
During those years, M.Yu. Lermontov's poetic talent was not known to the public - he only presented his works in officer and high-society circles. His first publication happened without M.Yu. Lermontov's knowledge - in 1835, the manuscript of the poem "Hadji Abrek" was secretly handed over to the magazine "Library for Reading" by his distant relative N.D. Yuryev. Despite a successful debut, M.Yu. Lermontov did not want to publish his poems.
True fame came to M.Yu. Lermontov with the poem "The Death of a Poet" (1837) - a response to the last duel of A.S. Pushkin. And although this poem was not published and was circulated "in copies," it nonetheless caused extreme displeasure to the emperor, for which the poet was exiled to the Caucasus in the active army. Here M.Yu. Lermontov wrote numerous poetic works, and besides that, he began to engage in painting.