No, It's Not You I Love So Fervently

Mikhail Lermontov (Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, 1814-1841) is considered one of Russia’s greatest Romantic poets. Only twenty-six years old at the time of his death, Lermontov had already established himself as a brilliant poet and thinker, a major prose writer and playwright, the successor of Pushkin, and the founder of Russian psychological prose.
Alongside his dramatic and philosophical works, Lermontov was a master of lyric poetry. His poems are distinguished by musicality, emotional clarity, and a deeply personal tone, expressing love, longing, loneliness, and the beauty of nature with striking intensity and grace. He gave voice to intimate feelings in a way that felt both elevated and profoundly human. Many of his love poems and meditative lyrics remain among the most cherished in Russian literature, valued for their sincerity, elegance, and haunting emotional depth.