Mikhail Lermontov was born in Moscow on 15 October 1814,.
Three he lost his mother and his grandmother, Elizaveta Arsenieva, took it in Tarkhany, Penza province.
The little boy was very talented. He learned to read early and read a lot of books in childhood. Michael studied French,English, German, and reading Byron, Walter Scott, Schiller and Goethe in the original.
When he was fourteen, Michael went to Moscow with his grandmother, where he entered the gymnasium. In high school he was inspired by the poetry of A. Pushkin and V. Zhukovsky, and he began to write poetry. In 1830, Lermontov is the first poem in the spring was published. In the same year he enrolled in Moscow University. By 1832 it was written 200 lyrical poems, long narrative poems 10 and 3 plays. In 1832, Lermontov left the University and went to Petersburg, where he studied at the cadet school until 1834. At that time, while he was working on a novel Vadim, he wrote his famous poem the Sail.
In 1837, Lermontov wrote his powerful poem death of the poet, where he described the role of the Tsar in Pushkin is murder. It was published and was a huge success. Because of this poem he was sent to the Caucasus.
The Caucasus inspired Lermontov to write his great poems: the demon and Mtsyri. In 1840, Lermontov published his great novel "a Hero of our time", where he gave a died picture of life its realistic. A great writer died in 1841, at the age of 26 years. He was honoured by his contemporaries as a great poet and novelist.