- Based off Mikhail Yeryevich Lermontov, a lyric poet, playwright, and novelist who came after Pushkin
- He wrote of his aversion to the czar's suppression of the people
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It would take years to identify all the references in this masterpiece. Here is compilation of information we collected from various sources (namely the Jan Vonhellemont Annotations and the Middlebury Annotations), but remember that there are always more references!
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