CRITICISM

Andronnikov, Irakli. “Mikhail Lermontov: The Great Poet's 170^th Birthday.” Soviet Life (October 1984): 18-20.

Discusses Lermontov's legacy as both artist and poet.

Axelrod, M. R. “The Psychoanalytic Notion of Weltschmerz in Mikhail Lermontov and A Hero of Our Times.” Literature and Psychology 39, nos. 1, 2 (1993): 112-20.

Examines the melancholia and misogyny exhibited by Lermontov's protagonist in A Hero of Our Time.

Masing-Delic, Irene. “The Impotent Demon and Prurient Tamara: Parodies on Lermontov's ‘Demon’ in Dostoevskij's Besy.” Russian Literature 48, no. 3 (October 2000): 263-88.

Asserts that Stavrogin, Dostoevsky's protagonist in The Possessed, is a parodic, debased representation of Lermontov's Demon.

Miller, Tsetsiliia. “Lermontov Reads Eugene Onegin.” Russian Review 53, no. 1 (January 1994): 59-66.

Studies Lermontov's “The Death of a Poet” and the influence of the sixth chapter of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin on the poem.

Pearson, Irene. “Raphael as Seen by Russian Writers from Zhukovsky to Turgenev.” Slavonic and East European Review 59, no. 3 (July 1981): 346-69.

Examines the many references to the paintings of Raphael in nineteenth-century Russian literature, including Lermontov's poetry.

Reid, Robert. Lermontov's “A Hero of Our Time.” London: Bristol Classical Press, 1997, 104 p.

Discusses in detail the five stories that constitute Lermontov's novel, both individually and as interconnected parts of the work as a whole.

Additional coverage of Lermontov's life and career is contained in the following source published by the Gale Group: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 205.