A Hero of Our Time

Lermontov lived in an era of social unrest, and this was vividly reflected in his works. The idea of "A Hero of Our Time" was born in 1838 during the writer's exile to the Caucasus.
"A Hero of Our Time" (1840) is the first lyrical-psychological novel in Russian literature. It describes events from the life of a young officer with a passionate temperament, Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin, in the Caucasus.