Lermontov
Mi·kha·il Yu·rie·vich [myi-khuh-yeel-yoo-ryi-vyich], /myɪ xʌˈyil ˈyu ryɪ vyɪtʃ/, 1814–41, Russian poet and novelist.
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How to use Lermontov in a sentence
Human love and happiness fall second to art: “Life is unimportant,” says Lermontov.
If you are really so attracted to Byronism, why not have chosen a suitable quotation from Lermontov?
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky | Modeste TchaikovskyThis is the very reason why the Byronian influence, at the time of Pushkin and Lermontov, lasted such a short time.
Contemporary Russian Novelists | Serge PerskyIn anger, of course, there has been a progress compared with L—n, even compared with Lermontov.
The Possessed | Fyodor DostoevskyHere was incarcerated the poet-prince Odoevsky, about whose early death the banished Lermontov wrote so tender an elegy.
Comrade Kropotkin | Victor Robinson
Lermontov published only one small collection of poems in 1840.
British Dictionary definitions for Lermontov
/ (Russian ˈljɛrməntəf) /
Mikhail Yurievich (mixaˈil ˈjurjɪvitʃ). 1814–41, Russian novelist and poet: noted esp for the novel A Hero of Our Time (1840)
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