M.U. Lermontov
M.U. Lermontov is another brilliant novelist whose novels are recognized as philosophic novels. There are a lot of great ideas Lermontov in-put into his novels and those ideas, just like those novels, are internal. He wasn't a man of easy destiny and that was the reason for young Lermontov to start writing. No, he wasn't of poor family, though he was of unhappy one.
His mother died when she was 21 and it was a tragedy for family and for Lermontov off course. What worse was is that his father left right after his mother died and so Lermontov was left with his grandmother. Though his grandmother made her promises that she will ask for his father's pieces of advice as for bringing up a boy, she failed to keep her promise.
Moreover, it was a problem for Lermontov's father to visit his son; the granny often prevented him to do that. The cold war waged between father and grandmother soon turned into the first novel of Lermontov. And all those troubles common for his family but abnormal for family as it is, were reflected in works of M.U. Lermontov.
When he was a kid he was taken to the Caucasus in order to improve his health, as Lermontov was a kid of weak health. And that is where Lermontov falls in love for the first time in his life, those vivid emotions of romance closely connected with beauty of the Caucasus and so the pictures of it are typical for novels by Lermontov.