Mikhail Lermontov, Kniaginia Ligovskaia [Princess Ligovskaya]

Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol)

Ed. by Neil Cornwell, University of Bristol
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.1.00: Slavic and Russian Writing and Culture: Old, Medieval and Tsarist, 700-1917.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1882

Places

Russia (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Many Russians know by heart reams of Lermontov's lyric poetry, much of it expounding on ill-starred love or premonitory death amid awesome Caucasian scenery, while his mature Caucasian narrative poems, The Demon [Demon] and The Novice [Mtsyri], rank among the finest of their genre in the Russian language. However, it is Lermontov's prose which, perhaps inevitably, travels best in translation; and, moreover, his reputation in this field rests almost entirely on A Hero of Our Time [Geroi nashego vremeni], first published in 1840 (second edition 1841), his only completed novel.

Depicted in A Hero of Our Time as a man …

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Citation: Cornwell, Neil. "Kniaginia Ligovskaia". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 June 2009 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=26813, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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