Lermontov, Mikhail Yurevich
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...early verse, which, like his life, was greatly influenced by Byron...reputation, second in Russia only to Pushkins, rests upon the lyric and narrative...tales describing aspects of the life of Pechorin, a disenchanted...numerous enemies, and, like Pushkin, he was killed in a duel. See...