About the book: 2018 / Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (1814–1841) - Russian poet, prose writer, playwright, artist. His life was short, but his brilliant talent developed surprisingly early: poems and even poems written by Lermontov at the age of 14 have been preserved. He was gifted with amazing musicality - he played the violin, the piano, sang, composed music based on his own poems. Lermontov’s creative heritage includes poetry, prose, drama: realistic, romantic and even satirical works. Everything created by the poet in his short life , is a feat in the name of freedom and the Motherland. And it lies not only in the glorification of Borodino’s victory (“Borodino”, 1837), in the lines “I love my fatherland...” (“Motherland”, 1841), but also in those works that talk about the fate of a generation, about the purpose of the poet, about a lonely prisoner, about exile, about the emptiness of life. The collection includes poems and poems by M.Yu. Lermontov, written in different years of his life and related to different directions of the poet’s work.