Valery Lermontov Biography

One between heaven and earth. What do we know about Mikhail Lermontov, in addition to the fact that it was the second after Pushkin by the significance of the Russian poet and for some connoisseurs - and the first and that it was the most ingenious of the youngest prose writers, who wrote at a fantastically young age one of the wisest psychological novels - “Hero of our time”, which is read today as an absolutely modern thing?

What we know about him, except for his amazing poems "in the sky of midnight, an angel flew even his unfortunate death from the Martynov bullet was shrouded in a secret. An excellent actor and, in my opinion, the bad director Nikolai Burlyaev in his film" Lermontov "even put forward the idea of ​​a Masonic conspiracy against a poet; and not without reason the film ends with a hex of the pistol in full screen, from which" Mason "from which" Mason Martynov aims in the Russian genius, who was solving the insidious designs of the "free masons", after all, the hexagonal star, the star of David is their symbol.

But he, by virtue of the laws of Soviet ideology, Lermontov presented such a fighter with the dark forces of tsarism and “Bencedorfishchyna”, which, perhaps, had some meaning, but Lermontov’s image still deformed somewhat. The book of remarkable critic Alla Marchenko, recently released at AST publishing house, was written modernly, conceptually, with a great personal excitement and his subjective attitude towards the poet.

It reads well and exciting, but just like Marchenko’s book about Lermontov.

This is, so to speak, "My Lermontov." The new researcher of the mysterious personality of the Russian genius Valery Mikhailov, of course, was an inconceivable difficult task. He had to either overturn all the well -known ideas about the poet, or write his objective biography, separating myths from the truth, and, without fear of dry presentation, create a classic type of biography.

For me, it would be better. But Valery Mikhailov has his own right as an author. He writes rather not so much the biography of Lermontov as the biography of his work. Starting from a very voluminous analysis of the poem "Angel" "in the sky of midnight, the angel flew, not without reason, he sees in the" young soul ", which the angel carries in his arms" for the world of sadness and tears "the image of the poet’s early mother, who became a posthumous ideal and" point of pain "for him, who at one time betrayed his mother, hate his grandmother to hate his grandmother to hate his grandmother.

The son -in -law and her adoration of the grandson created a very subtle and complex spiritual creature from Lermontov, in which, from the first years of life, the angelicity was combined with the demonic one. His conception was some other, "not earthly", and, writing Tamara and the demon, he accurately wrote to us "the sin of his mother." That's the matter and the essence.

"The statements of Vasily Rozanov must be, however, very careful. Lermontov wrote not only the demon and Tamara, not only" Angel "and not only" I go out on the way ", and not only" The Sailing Saily, he wrote "Testament" "alone with that way, the book of Valery Mikhailov was written well, with great love for the poet. This is another excursion into his secret secrets, to look where it is interesting, but also terribly.