Jump to navigation Jump to search “Lermontov” russian cossack hat ladies here. For the ocean liner which sank in New Zealand in 1986, see MS Mikhail Lermontov. This article’s lead section does not adequately summarize key points of its contents.

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 and the greatest figure in Russian Romanticism. The marriage proved ill-suited and the couple soon grew apart. There is no strong evidence as to what had precipitated the quarrels they’ve had. There are reasons to believe Yuri has got tired of his wife’s nervousness and frail health, and his mother-in-law’s despotic ways,” according to literary historian and Lermontov scholar Alexander Skabichevsky.

Nine days after Maria’s death a final row broke out in Tarkhany and Yuri rushed away to his Kropotovo estate in Tula Governorate where his five sisters resided. Yelizaveta Arsenyeva launched a formidable battle for her beloved grandson, promising to disinherit him if his father took the boy away. Eventually the two sides agreed that the boy should stay with his grandmother until the age of 16. In June 1817 Yelizaveta Alekseyevna moved her grandson to Penza. In 1821 they returned to Tarkhany and spent the next six years there. The doting grandmother spared no expense to provide the young Lermontov with the best schooling and lifestyle that money could buy.