Event dedicated to the 210th anniversary of the birth of Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov

News Desk: The Russian House in Dhaka organized an event dedicated to the 210th birth anniversary of the great Russian writer Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov.

Director of the Russian House in Dhaka P. Dvoychenkov, in his welcoming speech, noted that Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov is one of the most famous Russian poets and recognition came to him during his lifetime. His work, which combined acute social themes with philosophical motifs and personal experiences, had a huge impact on poets and writers of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Lermontov lived only 27 years, thirteen of which were devoted to creativity. During this time he created more than 400 poems, stories, and novels about life and death about eternity about good and evil about love, about friendship, about nature, about the search for the meaning of life about the future, and about the past.

At the meeting, the guests got acquainted not only with the life and work of the poet but also with musical masterpieces based on his works and written on his poems: "Waltz" by A. Khachaturian to the drama "Masquerade", "Cossack Lullaby", "Mountain Peaks" by A. Varlamov, etc.

The story of the life of M. Lermontov was accompanied by his piercing poems "The Terrible Fate of Father and Son", "Prayer", "Motherland", "Dream", "Duma", "Death of the Poet" and no less vivid musical compositions.

Mikhail Lermontov was, is, and will be relevant at all times because he touched on eternal themes in his works. His works connect some features of all cultures, the character of a person, and the essence of different values of life that people profess. In his works, the great classic was able to touch on exactly those deep sides of the human soul that will always be relevant.

As part of the event, a biographical documentary and feature film "Lermontov", directed by Maxim Bespal, was shown.