M. A. Bakunin

«Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin was a contemporary of Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov. The same era produced for the world the most European of the Russian poets and the most European of the Russian political figures. There are many personal differences between them, and even more typical resemblances. If you like, Bakunin is a living and remarkably complete embodiment of that positive half of Lermontov’s genius, which determines the creative, destructively creating, revolutionary significance of his work…»