Russian President Boris Yeltsin once described New Zealand as the only country ever to ever sink a Russian ship and get away with it. He was talking of course about the Soviet cruise liner Mikhail ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov was both a patriot and an opposition figure. During his yearend press conference he cited Lermontov’s verse “Death of the ...

"The point to be marked in a study of A Hero of Our Time," observed Vladimir Nabokov, "is that, though of tremendous and at times somewhat morbid interest to the sociologist, the 'time' is of less ...

He is widely regarded as Russia's second-greatest poet and was born 200 years ago this month. You would fully expect the bicentenary of Mikhail Lermontov to be celebrated in his Motherland. But why ...

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов; 1814 – 1841), sometimes referred to as the "Poet of the Caucasus", was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter considered the most important ...