Mikhail Lermontov was born in Moscow into the family of a landowner, Captain Yuri Petrovich Lermontov and Maria Mikhailovna, née Arsenyeva. After the early death of his mother, his upbringing was taken over by his maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Alexeyevna Arsenyeva, née Stolypina, who insisted that her grandson live with her at her estate in Tarkhany, Penza province. Lermontov received his initial education at home under the guidance of foreign tutors. From 1828, he studied at the Noble Boarding School at Moscow University, and then enrolled in the moral-political department of Moscow University, but did not complete it. In 1832, Lermontov moved to St. Petersburg with the intention of continuing his studies at St. Petersburg University, but was not admitted. That same year, he entered the School of Guards Ensigns and Cadets, where he studied alongside Nikolai Solomonovich Martynov, who later became his murderer. In 1834, Lermontov graduated as a cornet in the Life Guards Hussar Regiment. He began his literary career in 1829, although his first poem "Hadji Abrek" was published only in 1835. There is a legend that the manuscript was sent to the editorial office without his knowledge. Lermontov created about 400 poems, around 30 poems including "Demon" and "Mtsyri", the drama "Masquerade", as well as prose works "A Hero of Our Time" and "Princess Ligovskaya". The poem "On the Death of the Poet", written after the death of A.S. Pushkin, caused discontent among the authorities, and Lermontov was exiled as a cornet to the Nizhny Novgorod Dragoon Regiment in the Caucasus. In 1838, he returned to St. Petersburg. In 1840, at a ball, he had a quarrel with the son of the French envoy de Barant, which led to a duel that ended without casualties. However, Lermontov was again exiled to the Tenginsky Infantry Regiment in the Caucasus. In Pyatigorsk, he met his former classmate Martynov, and due to a trivial quarrel between them, a duel occurred in which Lermontov was killed. In 1842, his remains were transferred to the estate in Tarkhany, Penza province.