Mikhail Lermontov was born in Moscow, on October 15, 1814.
At the a of three he lost his mother and his grandmother, Yelizaveta Arsenyeva, took him to Tarhany, Penzenskaya guberniya.
The little boy was very talented. He learnt to read early, and read many books in his childhood. Mikhail studied French,English, German, and read Byron, Walter Scott, Goethe and Schiller in the original.
When he was fourteen, Mikhail went to Moscow with his grandmother, where he entered the gymnasium. At the gymnasium he inspired by the poetry of A. Pushkin and V. Zhukovsky, and began writing poems himself. In 1830, Lermontov is first poem The Spring was published. The same year he entered Moscow University. By 1832 he was written 200 lyric poems, 10 long poems and 3 plays. In 1832, Lermontov left the university and went to St Petersburg, where he studied in the cadet school till 1834. At that time, while he had worked on the novel Vadim, he wrote hes famous poem The Sail.
In 1837, Lermontov wrote his powerful poem The Death of the Poet, where he described the tsar is role in Pushkin is murder. It was published and was a huge success. Because of that poem he was sent to the Caucasus.
The Caucasus inspired Lermontov to write his wonderful poems: The Demon and Mtsyri. In 1840, Lermontov published his remarkable novel A Hero of Our Time, Where he gave a died picture of the life of his realistic. The great writer died in 1841, at the age of 26. He honour by his contemporaries as a remarkable poet and novelist.