Mikhail Lermontov was descended from George Learmont, a Scottish officer who
entered the Russian service in the early seventeenth century. His literary fame began with
a poem on the death of Pushkin,
full of angry invective against the court circles ; for this Lermontov, a Guards officer,
was courtmartialled and temorarily transferred to the Caucasus. With the conspicuous
exception of The Angel (1831), the best of his poetry was written during the last
five years of his life. The Last House-warming (1840), in which he protests against
the transfer of Napoleon's body from St. Helena to the Invalides, is an example of his
rhetorical power. He was killed in a duel at the age of twenty-seven.
From "The Heritage of Russian Verse," by Dimitri Obolensky
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