Composition biography Lermontov

Petersburg Students 3. Literary glory Mikhail Lermontov is one of the most famous Russian poets, and recognition came to him during his lifetime. His work, which combined acute social topics with philosophical motives and personal experiences, had a huge impact on poets and writers of the XIX -XX centuries. RF ”tells about the personality, life and work of Mikhail Lermontov.

Moscow Youth Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov was born at night from October 2 to 3 on October 15 in the new style of the year in the house opposite the Red Gate Square - the very famous monument to the poet in Russia today. Lermontov’s mother was not even seventeen at that time, and his father had a reputation as an attractive, but frivolous person. The real power in the family was in the hands of the poet’s grandmother - Elizabeth Arsenyeva.

It was she who insisted that the boy would not be called Peter, as the father wanted, but Mikhail. The young Lermontov was not distinguished by either good health or a cheerful disposition. All his childhood he was sick with a gold. A subtile boy with a diet and rash throughout his body caused his peers neglect and ridicule. The more often Lermontov was inability to, the more intensely the grandmother was engaged in his treatment and education.

In the year, she brought him to the Caucasus - so in Lermontov’s life the most important toponym arose for him. Since September, the poet studied at Moscow University-first at the moral and political, and then at the verbal department.

Later, after the Caucasus, Lermontov will call the university his “holy place”. True, Mikhail did not look for the friendship of fellow students, did not take part in student circles, and displayed disputes. At the end of the second year, at the rehearsal of exams on rhetoric, heraldry and numismatics, Lermontov demonstrated well -readiness over the program and ... almost complete ignorance of lecture material.

Brighting with examiners arose. So, in the records of the administration, opposite the name Lermontov, a note appeared in Latin: Consilium Abeundi "advised to leave." After that, the young man moved to Petersburg. Petersburg Students on the Neva Lermontov disliked, and this feeling turned out to be mutual. St. Petersburg University refused to count Lermontov two Moscow years of study-he was offered to go to the first year again.

Lermontov was offended and, on the advice of a friend, passed the exam to the school of guards supporters and cavalry junkers. However, instead of the “storm” of the poet at school, only the musculus and routine were waiting. Here "it was not allowed to read books of purely literary content." Lermontov called the years of study “terrible” and “ill -fated”. At the School of Subjectors, the poet received the nickname of Mayushka in consonance with the French “Doigt en Maillet” - “Crooked Finger”.

Lermontov really was a stoop, but the accuracy of the nickname was not only in this. Its second meaning is a reference to a character of novels named May - a cynic and a wit. On the course, the poet really kept independently and boldly, while studying was among the best students. In the notes of Nikolai Martynov’s fellow student of the very one who called the poet to the last duel Lermontov is characterized as a person, “so exceeded with his mental development of all other comrades that it is impossible to draw between them.”