(355 words) Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov was born on October 3, 1814. The boy lost his mother very early, and his grandmother took care of him. You could even say that she forced the young poet's father to give him to his care. A weak and sickly child spent all his childhood in Tarkhany under the care of an elderly woman.
Mikhail Yuryevich studied first at home, he was engaged in various foreign tutors. Then, in 1828 he went to a boarding school at Moscow University. A little later he entered Moscow State University, but did not finish his studies. The poet moved to Petersburg, but could not enter that university. Lermontov was also a good artist, several of his paintings have even survived to the present day.
Mikhail Yurievich had a very unusual character. He was at the same time kind and loved to break things, he was very sensitive, but irritable. The poet could not tolerate any discontent with him or what he was doing. He considered himself superior to others, did not pay attention to other people's opinions. It can be assumed that his grandmother raised him like that.
His first literary work was the poem “Haji Abrek” in 1829, some even think that Lermontov was against its publication. During his short life, the poet wrote 400 poems, including the famous "Death of the Poet", for which he was exiled to the Caucasus. Everyone knows these lines: “The poet died! - a slave of honor. " The authorities did not like how the author described the death of Pushkin.
He also wrote about 30 poems. The most famous of them are “Demon” and “Mtsyri”. And, of course, the prose is “The Hero of Our Time”, “Princess Ligovskaya” and many others.
Mikhail Yuryevich had one acquaintance whom the poet liked to play a trick on - Nikolai Martynov. At one of the balls in 1840, Lermontov crossed the line, and a friend challenged him to a duel. Even here, our author was not serious and, according to people who were in a duel, fired a shot in the air. But his friend was very offended and shot the opponent’s chest. July 15, the writer died.
The emperor did not really like the poet, but could not dispute his greatness. “A dog is a dog’s death” - this is how he spoke at the table when he was having dinner with his family. Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna was very indignant at his words and quarreled strongly with Emperor Nicholas I. After which the ruler went to the church and said:
Gentlemen, the news was received that the one who could replace us with Pushkin was killed.
