Lermontov's novel assembles five linked stories around Pechorin, a brilliant, bored, and destructive army officer who embodies the “superfluous man.” Its psychological depth and unreliable narration make it a landmark of the Russian novel.
Sources for Mikhail Lermontov — A Hero of Our Time
Mikhail Lermontov — A Hero of Our Time in Russian Literature
Held in the Russian Literature chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Alexander Pushkin — Eugene Onegin (1833)
- Alexander Pushkin — The Queen of Spades (1834)
- Alexander Pushkin — The Captain's Daughter (1836)
- Alexander Pushkin — The Bronze Horseman (1837)
- Mikhail Lermontov — The Demon (1842)
- Nikolai Gogol — Dead Souls (1842)
- Ivan Goncharov — Oblomov (1859)
- Ivan Turgenev — A Nest of the Gentry (1859)
- Ivan Turgenev — Fathers and Sons (1862)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky — Notes from the Underground (1864)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky — Crime and Punishment (1866)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky — The Idiot (1869)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky — The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
- Leo Tolstoy — War and Peace (1869)
- Leo Tolstoy — Anna Karenina (1877)
- Leo Tolstoy — The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886)
- Leo Tolstoy — Resurrection (1899)
- Anton Chekhov — Uncle Vanya (1898)
- Anton Chekhov — Short Stories (1899)
- Anton Chekhov — The Cherry Orchard (1904)
- Leo Tolstoy — Hadji Murad (1912)