A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov (1840)

The turbulent backdrop of Russia in the 1840s is our setting as we navigate the stirring brilliance of Mikhail Lermontov's unforgettable masterpiece, "A Hero of Our Time". There's a complex duality within its enigmatic protagonist, Pechorin. We'll find an audacious story teetering between romantic idealism and societal cynicism. 

Listen now to discover a society recovering from historic upheavals, a generation's defiant spirit, and learn how Lermontov's transgressive masterpiece was instrumental in reshaping Russian literature.

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