Wikipedia of the biography of Lermontov

Born: on October 15, he was born on the night of October 2 to 3 - 15th n. Father, Yuri Petrovich, retired infantry captain, from the impoverished noble family; Mother, Maria Mikhailovna, nee Arsenyeva from the clan of the Stolypin. In the young family lives in the village of Tarkhani of the Penza province, the estate of the grandmother of the future poet E. here passed the childhood of the poet.

He lost his mother early, died at the age of 21 and grew up with his father. Grandmother did everything for the only, adored grandson, not sparing money for teachers and tutors. He received an excellent home education: since childhood he fluently owned French and ... German, painted and sculpted well, studied music played on a flute, piano and violin. Fearing for the health of a painful grandson, the grandmother took tiring trips to the Caucasus, for treatment with mineral waters.

The impressions of these trips remained with Lermontov in memory for life, they were reflected in early creativity. She brought her grandson to Moscow to her grandmother to continue his education. He receives a humanitarian education, which replenishes with independent reading. He writes poetry in the boarding house, realizing very early that poetry is his vocation.

In these years, Byron's poetry has been influenced and writes several “Byronical poems” “Circassians”, “Caucasian captive”, “Corsair”, “Criminal”, “Oleg”, “Two Brothers”; In conceiving the poem "Demon", on which he will work almost until the end of his life. In the fall, he enters Moscow University for the Moral and Political Department. Lermontov’s dissatisfaction with the lectures of professors and the discontent of the professors with inconspicuous answers and worship of the student, which was considered impermissible insolence, led to the fact that he filed a statement about dismissal and left the university in - 31 - the top stage of the youthful work of Lermontov.

He works unusually intensively: in two years he tried almost all poetic genres: Elegy, Romance, Song, Dedication, Epistle, etc. The poet peers tensely into his inner life, trying to express inexpressible mental movements in a word. It concerns the general issues of being, and the moral life of the individual. The drama "Strange man" is a kind of focus of autobiographical motifs of his lyrics of this period.

However, it was necessary to continue education, and Lermontov hoped to do this at the University of St. Petersburg, but he would have to start with the first year, since the time of study at Moscow University was not counted as a dismissed. He did not want to lose two years and abruptly changed his plans. The two years spent in the situation of the barracks of the barrels were, according to him, "terrible." But in these conditions, Lermontov secretly continues to write, although his work is experiencing a period of decline.

At the end of the school, he was made from junkers to the cornets of the Life Guards of the Hussar Regiment, which stood in Tsarskoye Selo. However, Lermontov spends most of his life in St. Petersburg, for the first time feeling free. His observations of the life of secular society formed the basis of the drama "Masquerade", which he conceived as follows: "Comedy, like" grief from the mind ", sharp criticism of modern customs." After making sure that the “masquerade” cannot be pulled through theatrical censorship, he returns to prose: the novel “Princess Ligovskaya” begins, in which the name of Pechorin first appears.

The autobiographical moments of the novel are associated with Varenka Lopukhina, a deep feeling for which all his life did not leave the poet. The news of the death of A. Pushkin shocked Lermontov and the next day he writes the poem "On the death of the poet", and a week later - the final 16 lines of this poem, which immediately made it famous, corresponded and memorized.

Sitting under arrest, writes several poems: “Prisoner”, “Neighbor”, “Prayer”, “Desire”. Lermontov was transferred from the guard to the Nizhny Novgorod Dragoon Regiment and on April 1 went from St. Petersburg to the Caucasus. Going into his first link, he lingered in Moscow for a month, which was preparing for the big celebration - the anniversary of the Battle of Borodino. The poet processes his youthful poem “Borodino Field”, and Borodino appears, published in “Contemporary” during the Caucasian exile, he met the Decembrists who also served here the link, and even made friends with the poet.

Almost everything that Lermontov created in the period between two links is somehow connected with the Caucasus. Caucasian topics and images have found a wide reflection in his work: in the lyrics and in the poems, the novel "Hero of our time" they are captured in numerous sketches and paintings of Lermontov, a gifted painter. In January, he arrives in St. Petersburg, since the troubles of the grandmother and the petition of V.

Zhukovsky were successful, and the poet was transferred to the Grodno Regiment, located near Novgorod. He lived in St. Petersburg for about a month, being in the theater every day, he was at Zhukovsky, to whom he gave the poem "Tambov Treasury", soon published in "Contemporary". As a result of further petitions, Lermontov was transferred to his former hussar regiment, standing in Tsarskoye Selo.Then she appeared without the name of the author, not missed by censorship, “The song about Tsar Ivan Vasilievich Kraevsky, and is gradually entering the Wednesday of St.

Petersburg writers. Visits poetry evenings, meets with Kukovsky, Turgenev, Belinsky. In progressive circles in it they see the hope of Russian literature. In March, a duel with the son of a French post of E. Participates in hostilities, "fulfilling the assignment assigned to him with excellent courage and composure." In early February, having received a two -month vacation, he comes to Petersburg, hoping to get a resignation and stay in the capital.

But he will be refused this, as in a reward for bold actions in the battles in the Caucasus. Moreover, he will be ordered to leave the capital within 48 hours and follow his regiment in the Caucasus. He arrives in Pyatigorsk and receives permission to linger for treatment with mineral waters. He meets his old friends, including his comrade in the school of cadets, N. at one of the evenings in the Verzilin house, where young people gathered, offended by another ulcerous joke of Lermontov, Martynov calls him owl.

The duel took place on July 15, the poet was killed. Lermontov’s body was buried in the Pyatigorsk cemetery. Later, at the request of her grandmother, the coffin with the ashes of the poet was transported to Tarkhani and buried in the family crypt. Detailed biography.