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''[[A Hero of Our Time]]'' (Russian: "Герой нашего времени") is a classical Russian novel by [[Russian Reading|Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov]], written and revised between 1839 and 1841.
The plot concerns a certain Grigory Pechorin, a [[Idle Rich|Russian aristocrat]], a [[An Officer and
* ''Bela''. [[The Watson]] ([[Literary Agent Hypothesis|implied to be Lermontov himself]]) meets an [[Old Soldier]] Maxim [[Patronymic|Maximich]] while traveling across Caucasus, who tells him a story how an old friend of his (Pechorin) once fell in love with and kidnapped a highlander princess (it didn't work out).
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Lermontov also published a short essay ''The Caucasian'' (1840; as in "someone from Caucasus", not "pale-faced"), wherein he more or less describes Maxim Maximich's [[Backstory]] (without any names). Additionally, ''AHoOT'' can be seen as a sequel to his unfinished novel ''Princess Ligovskaya'' (1838), which also features Grigory Pechorin (who may or [[In Name Only|may not]] be the same character) and is set in [[St Petersburg]].
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* [[Author Avatar]]: Some interpret Pechorin as this.
* [[The Berserker]]: Pechorin has traces of this.
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* [[The Dandy]]: Pechorin.
* [[Deconstructor Fleet]]: In ''Bela'' and ''Taman'', Lermontov picks apart the "wacky Caucasus adventures" genre prominent during his time. The central character is a darker, more realistic take on the [[Byronic Hero]] archetype, and Grushnitsky is an outright mockery of the concept. The novel as a whole is regarded as the author's farewell to Romanticism.
* [[Duel to
* [[Femme Fatale]]: The "Undine".
* [[Foil]]: Grushnitsky to Pechorin.
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* [[Life Will Kill You]]: Vulich survives shooting himself in the head unscathed, then {{spoiler|is killed by a drunk Cossack returning home}}.
* [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]]: The nameless traveling officer who "inherits" Pechorin's diaries is never openly identified with Lermontov.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Pechorin is named after the Pechora River, just like [[
* [[An Officer and
* [[Old Soldier]]: Maxim Maximich.
* [[Patronymic]]: "Maximich" is actually a colloquial shortening of "Maximovich", "son of Maxim".
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