Из пламя и света

Even from the school curriculum, everyone knows Mikhail Lermontov not only from the poem "On the Death of a Poet" or the poem "Mtsyri". But who is hiding behind the glossy image presented on the pages of textbooks and prefaces to multi-volume bibliographies? Who was the great Russian poet and how did he live? A darling of high society and a nobleman, he, in part, repeated the fate of the one about whom he wrote.Tragic duel. Thus ended the life of an ambiguous, still misunderstood and underestim…