“And I, as I lived, in an alien land
Will die a slave and an orphan.”
Mikhail Lermontov book The Novice
"The Novice" (1839)
Poems
Quotes from bookThe Novice
Mikhail LermontovOriginal title Мцыри (Russian, 1840)
The Novice is a poem by Mikhail Lermontov written in 1839 and first published in 1840, hailed as "one of the last examples of the classic Russian romantic poetry," according to the Lermontov Encyclopedia.
