This is an abstract of Lermontov's famous novel Maksim Maksimych, that is the second book of more famous internationally "A Hero of Our Time"

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837.

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