A Hero of Our Time

This edition presents the novel "A Hero of Our Time", the drama "Masquerade", the fairy tale "Ashyk-Kerib", as well as the poems and verses of M.Yu. Lermontov. His work, which amazed the minds and hearts of his contemporaries, is beloved by readers even today. The prose of M. Lermontov was successfully embodied in theater, cinematography, and painting, while his poetry has become an inexhaustible source for opera, symphonic, and chamber art. "His word is listened to like a snake charmer's: from almost street epigrams to prayers, and his lines are unmatched in any poetry of the world..." (A. Akhmatova).