Mikhail Lermontov - Exceptional Personality!

“If this boy stayed alive, neither I nor Dostoevsky would be needed! "
L. Tolstoy.

My dear friends, today I am talking about one of my favourite authors, Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov.

[olgalacebreeze]

It is very interesting to learn something new that was NOT told about at school:)))

[harmageddon]

Absolutely friend! I agree with Tolstoy wholeheartedly and wish Lermontov would have lived longer. His grandiosity and Byronic nature has always appealed to me.

[orglancs]

Vadim, I have just discovered your channel. Thank you, it looks very interesting indeed and I look forward to watching all your videos eventually. May I suggest, politely, , I hope, a better translation of your title? It would be, 'If this boy had stayed alive, neither I nor Dostoyevsky would have been needed.' Pushkin House in London has just posted an excellent video of a meeting about Lermontov, too. I think he's a better poet than Pushkin, he's my favourite. Peter.

[kristijanbenito]

He has book "Vadim" like your name. What a book! What a author! Greatest of all time

[AmbienceNexus]

Russia indeed was deprived of a great literary gem when they placed the weapon in his assasins hands

[ryanoneiljohnson]

Sure. Do more analysis on russian authors especially the father Pushkin.

[christophmahler]

Vadim, since You are interested in psychology and intimately familiar with Lermontov's thought's, I wonder if You would relate his seemingly unique disposition into what is today called _'autism spectrum disorder'_ .

It's odd to diagnose the dead - but it seems to me an interesting question, nonetheless - even if one were to reject the idea.