“While some two poems, placed in the first two books of “Notes of the Fatherland” in 1839, aroused so much interest in Lermontov from the public, established his name as a poet with great hopes, Lermontov suddenly appears with a story “ Bela", written in prose. This surprised everyone all the more pleasantly as it further revealed the strength of the young talent and showed its diversity and versatility. In the story, Lermontov was the same creator as in his poems...”