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Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov , a Russian

Russian language

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Romantic

Romanticism

Romanticism was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution...

writer

Writer

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, poet

Poet

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and painter

Painting

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, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus

Caucasus

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", became the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837. Lermontov is considered the supreme poet of Russian literature

Russian literature

Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia or its émigrés, and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Russia or the Soviet Union...

alongside Pushkin and the greatest figure in Russian Romanticism

Romanticism

Romanticism was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution...

. His influence on later Russian literature

Russian literature

is still felt in modern times, not only through his poetry, but also through his prose, which founded the tradition of the Russian psychological novel.
Lermontov was born in Moscow into a respectable noble family of the Tula Oblast

Tula Oblast

Tula Oblast is a federal subject of Russia with its present borders formed on September 26, 1937. Its administrative center is the city of Tula. The oblast has an area of and a population of 1,553,874...

, and grew up on the Tarkhany

Tarkhany

Tarkhany is an estate in Russia where the Romantic writer Mikhail Lermontov spent his childhood and is buried. The late 18th Century–early 19th Century estate is located in the village of Lermontovo in the Belinsky District of Penza Oblast. Tarkhany is the main tourist attraction of Penza...

estate in in the village of Tarkhany (now Lermontovo) in Penza Oblast

Penza Oblast

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