Crossword-Solution: LERMONTOV 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

When his attention was drawn to an illuminating essay on the poet Lermontov he was pleased with it, not because it demonstrated Lermontov’s position in the literary history of Russia, but because it pointed out the moral aims which underlay the wild Byronism of his works.

Lermontov FOREWORD THIS novel, known as one of the masterpieces of Russian Literature, under the title “A Hero of our Time,” and already translated into at least nine European languages, is now for the first time placed before the general English Reader.

And Gorky, though broken in health now, buffeted by the storms of fate, bruised and wounded in the battle-field of life, still like Byron and like Lermontov, “--seeks the storm As though the storm contained repose.” And in a leonine voice he cries defiantly: “Let the storm rage with greater force and fury!” HERMAN BERNSTEIN.

The translations of Pushkin and of Lermontov have never impressed foreign readers in the superlative degree.

From his fourteenth to his twenty-first year the books that he read with the most profit were Sterne's "Sentimental Journey," under the influence of which he wrote his first story, Pushkin, Schiller's "Robbers," Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev's "A Sportsman's Sketches;" and to a less degree he was affected by the New Testament, Rousseau, Dickens's "David Copperfield," and the historical works of the American Prescott.