“In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us, ecstatic composers of narratives in words and on paper.”

— Mikhail Lermontov , book A Hero of Our Time

A Hero of Our Time (1840; rev. 1841)

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Russian writer, poet and painter 1814–1841

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