“Lermontov’s works, so closely connected with his personal fate, seem to me especially remarkable in one respect. I see in Lermontov the direct founder of that spiritual mood and that direction of feelings and thoughts, and partly of actions, which for brevity can be called “Nietzscheanism” - after the name of the writer who most clearly and loudly expressed this mood, who most clearly denoted this direction ... "< /p>