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Jan 21, 2021 rated it really liked it
It's been said that Pushkin is Russia's greatest poet and Lermontov is the second greatest. Personally, I like both of their novels, but if I were to choose which one I thought was the best, it would be Pushkin, his stories are sublime.

A Hero of Our Time begins with an unnamed narrator (a Russian soldier)that is traveling through the Georgian mountains, meets up with an old soldier named Maxim Maximych. Maxim tells the story of Pechorin a young officer, that so intrigues the unnamed narrator th
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