E. G. Gershtein’s book “Lermontov’s Fate” does not need special recommendations. This is a phenomenon of Soviet literary classics, one of the best books about Lermontov that have been created in world science during the entire existence of Lermontov studies. Each chapter in this book is a discovery based on many years of research by the author, and a discovery concerning the central problems of Lermontov’s social biography.