In 1840, in the “Northern Bee” signed “L.L.” (B. S. Mezhevich) an article about “Poems by M. Lermontov” was published. The author informed readers about his acquaintance with the early work of the poet. While a student at Moscow University in the early 30s, he was aware of the literary life of the university's Noble boarding school and read Lermontov's poems included in handwritten boarding collections. “I can’t remember now Lermontov’s first experiments,” wrote Mezhevich, “but it seems that he wrote the excerpts I read from Thomas Moore’s poem “Lalla Rook” and translations of some melodies by the same poet (of which I very much remember one, called “ Shot“).