The hypothesis that I would like to share with the reader here may seem unlikely - and not because a poem by an almost unknown and inexperienced author is included among the possible sources of early Lermontov's lyrics - we know such cases - but because it , this poem seems to have accompanied several of Lermontov's lyrical creations and betrayed its presence even when the voices of Byron and Thomas Moore were heard. Nevertheless, “strange rapprochements do happen,” as Pushkin said on another occasion.