Prophet Lermontov

I happen to listen to the Radio Liberty Russian service from time to time, and notably their programs about Russian culture and history. “Мифы и репутации” is one such program, anchored by Ivan Tolstoy – professor of Russian literature, a grandson of Alexei Tolstoy and Dmitrii Lozinskii. His most recent program was devoted to the prophetic gift of Lermontov, where he and his colleague Leonid Arensthtein discussed not just how  Lermontov prophesied his death in a duel in his novel The Hero of Our Time, but also his “revolutionary” poem The Prophecy