The main biography of Lermontov

Pushkin and the successor of the best traditions of Russian literature, who had a great influence on literature, painting, music and theater Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov. On the maternal line, Mikhail Yuryevich came from the rich noble family of Stolypin. The poet’s father - retired captain Yuri Petrovich Lermontov, was from the poor landowners of the Tula province.

Mikhail Yuryevich lost his mother early and was taken to educate his grandmother E. The child’s childhood passed in the Penza province on the estate of the grandmother of Tarhana. In the city of Lermontov he was defined at a noble boarding house at the University of Moscow, where he began to actively engage in literature, published the manuscript journal “Morning Zarya”, in which he published his first poem “Indian”.

In gg. After the transformation to the city of Mikhail Yuryevich, he studied with V. Belinsky, A. Herzen, N. After G. Lermontov addresses the ballad “reed”, “desire” - “open me a dungeon”, “mermaid” and prose. Lermontov left the university because of the conflict with the professor and entered the school of guards supporters and cavalry junkers in St. Petersburg, from where in the city One of the first in the press of the works of Lermontov was published in the city during the GG.

Lermontov created the first original and mature poem "Boyar Orsha", worked on the novel "Vadim" is not finished, "Princess Ligovskaya" was not completed and the drama "Masquerade". The death of A. Pushkin Lermontov responded to the poem “The Death of the Poet”, which was extremely negative at court, for which Mikhail Yuryevich was exiled into the army to the Caucasus.

Being in exile, he painted watercolors, oil paintings, drawings-landscapes, genre scenes, portraits and caricatures. In July of the same G., returning to the capital, Lermontov met V. Zhukovsky, P. Vyazemsky, P. Pletnev, V. Sollogub, the Karamzins family; It was printed in "domestic notes." It was in this journal that the majority of lifetime and posthumous publications of Lermontov poems appeared.

In the same year, in the collection “The Poems of M. Lermontov” a romantic poem “Mtsyri” was published.

In February, in hostilities, the poet showed outstanding courage, as a participant in a heavy battle under the Valerik River in Chechnya, he was twice presented to a reward. In January, at the end of the vacation in March, he attempted to resign in order to devote himself to literary activities, but having received a refusal on April 14 on April 14 in May, Mikhail Yuryevich arrived in Pyatigorsk and received permission to linger for treatment in mineral waters.

Here he wrote a number of poems: “Sleep”, “Cliff”, “They loved each other a quarrel at one of the evenings with a co -practitioner at the Junker School of retired Major N. Martynov led to a duel, which ended with the death of a poet on July 15, Mikhail Lermontov, was buried in the city cemetery on July 17, July, later, the coffin with the poet’s body was. He was transported to the village of Tarkhany, where on April 23, May 5