Lermontov

A deputy battalion commander who goes by the call-sign "Lermontov" was in a reflective and dark mood.

I read a collection of Russian short stories, including “The Shot,” by Pushkin, and “Taman,” by Lermontov, in Nome, Alaska, in a fogged-in hotel a short flight from the Russian border.

The European Space Agency said the captured image shows the Northern Hemisphere and Mercury’s characteristic pock-marked features, among them the 103-mile-wide Lermontov crater.

In a previous interview, he pointed out that there is a tradition in Russian literature of military officers turning their experiences into books – Tolstoy, Lermontov and Solzhenitsyn.

Finally, Swinton cited the seminal 1948 ballet film, “The Red Shoes,” and its charismatic maestro Lermontov, who must persuade the dancer, “the interpreter of his work, to choose art above life.”