A Hero of Our Time
Герой нашего времени
A great book. First published AD 1840, written in Russian
A Hero of Our Time is a novel by Mikhail Lermontov, written in 1839, published in 1840, and revised in 1841.
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Where it is set
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What it draws on
Eugene OneginGreat book
Alexander Pushkin, AD 1825
Lermontov named Pechorin after the Pechora river as Pushkin had named Onegin after the Onega. His bored, brilliant, destructive young nobleman is Onegin's heir, the 'superfluous man' carried off to the Caucasus.
Source: Wikipedia, A Hero of Our Time
“The name Pechorin is drawn from that of the Pechora River, in the far north, as a homage to Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, named after the Onega River.” Read it there
