Lermontov was singularly inept in his descriptions of women. From Wordnik.com. [A Doomed Young Man] Reference
Lermontov recurs to Byron with attention throughout A Hero of Our Time. From Wordnik.com. [A Doomed Young Man] Reference
Lermontov even published a short poem in 1832 titled "No, I'm Not Byron.". From Wordnik.com. [A Doomed Young Man] Reference
He liked a great deal of literature: Lermontov, and Saint-Exupéry, for example. From Wordnik.com. [Yuri Gagarin's daughter: 'It wasn't enough for him, it was too quick!' – interview] Reference
Lermontov served twice in the Caucasus as a cavalryman, both times as punishment. From Wordnik.com. [A Doomed Young Man] Reference
Pechorin, and Lermontov, treat society and the military exactly as they find them. From Wordnik.com. [A Doomed Young Man] Reference
In spite of his reluctant leg, Rostnikov was outside the Lermontov in less than a minute. From Wordnik.com. [Rostnikov's Vacation]
Since the death of Pushkin, Lermontov alone has appeared to dispute the poetical crown with him. From Wordnik.com. [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference
In anger, of course, there has been a progress compared with L — n, even compared with Lermontov. From Wordnik.com. [The Possessed] Reference
A few months before his actual death, in 1841, Lermontov set down this even more premonitory verse. From Wordnik.com. [A Doomed Young Man] Reference
Novalis as well as in Byron and Baudelaire, Leopardi and Lermontov, and in Schopenhauer's pessimism. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The women had started early in the morning with a cup of tea just inside the lobby of the Lermontov Hotel. From Wordnik.com. [Rostnikov's Vacation]
From the bench they could watch the nearby traffic on the road and look up the hill toward the Lermontov Hotel. From Wordnik.com. [Rostnikov's Vacation]
Towards the end of the year 1877, died Nicholas Nekrasov, the most remarkable poet produced by Russia since Lermontov. From Wordnik.com. [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference
I guess that's from "Masquerade," which is Lermontov play, and he's there with his girlfriend, who's the leading lady. From Wordnik.com. [Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire] Reference
When Lermontov was brought to the field of honor, he apparently declined to fire on the fool who had provoked the duel. From Wordnik.com. [A Doomed Young Man] Reference
A chain of books including Chekhov, Lermontov, and Voltaire tells how Pato chose his patrimony: Each book begat another. From Wordnik.com. [The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander: Questions] Reference
Lermontov, like Byron, was of partly Scottish origin, being descended from a seventeenth-century mercenary named George Learmont. From Wordnik.com. [A Doomed Young Man] Reference
There also came a certain justice of the peace, a squire, of the kind so admirably described in the two famous lines of Lermontov —. From Wordnik.com. [Virgin Soil] Reference
It has captured the imagination of the Russians, you know, from 19th century on -- Tolstoy, Lermontov, Pushkin -- all went down there. From Wordnik.com. [Gorbachev: Heretic in the Kremlin] Reference
Lermontov: Well, I don't know exactly why, but I must. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
The poet Lermontov alone wrote as splendid a prose as Turgenev. From Wordnik.com. [Rudin] Reference
"Gentlemen, who remembers the description in Lermontov?" asked Von. From Wordnik.com. [The Duel and Other Stories] Reference
Tolstoy and Lermontov recorded those wars, every bit as bloody as today's. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Lermontov, Leopardi, Lenau and Heine, is tinged with sadness and pessimism. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three)] Reference
Lermontov was not inferior to his friend Pushkin, whom he closely resembled. From Wordnik.com. [Initiation into Literature] Reference
It is also a generation suckled on the writings of Pushkin, Lermontov, and Tolstoy. From Wordnik.com. [Turkey: The Internet Helps Some Rural Men Practice Polygamy] Reference
Mikhail Lermontov; and the ODT's involvement in 1991-92 in UN operations in Cambodia. From Wordnik.com. [NZ On Screen] Reference
Lermontov, Fet, and Blok all appear, but Vladimir Mayakovsky and Anna Akhamtova do not. From Wordnik.com. [VQR] Reference
A Hero of Our Time, by Mikhail Lermontov, translated by Hugh Aplin (Hesperus/Trafalgar). From Wordnik.com. [Books in Brief] Reference
Union's literary treasures and a classic poet in the long line extending from Lermontov and. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Lermontov, and they had been drawn together in friendship through their mutual admiration of Byron. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Wilderness] Reference
We are sick, Lermontov says — I agree with him. From Wordnik.com. [A House of Gentlefolk] Reference
Lermontov, saying, "He was a remote figure and he was remote to everybody. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters] Reference
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