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Which early Mikhail Lermontov poems were influenced by Lord Byron?
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Mikhail Lermontov
Mikhail Lermontov.
In 1828, Mikhail Lermontov wrote the poems Cherkesy ("Circassians") and Kavkazsky plennik ("Prisoner of the Caucasus") in the style of the English Romantic poet Lord Byron, whose influence was predominant among young Russian writers at the time.1