Demon. Poems

The poems of Lermontov travel from youthful imitations of Byron and Pushkin to large-scale mysteries that summarize Russian poetic romanticism.

«The Main Books of Russian Literature» — a joint series of the publishing house «Alpina.Proza» and the internet project «Polka». The works published in it are chosen by contemporary writers, critics, literary scholars, and teachers. This is both an attempt to define what the Russian literary canon looks like today and a new perspective on well-known works: each book is accompanied by a detailed article from the authors of «Polka».