Borodino is a work of the classic of Russian literature, the poet and prose writer M. Yu. Lermontov (1814 - 1841). This well-known poem by Lermontov was the poet's first work, which deals with the people as an active force of history. In contrast to conservative journalism, the author told a simple old soldier about the heroic deeds and expressed popular opinion on the war. The work is an obligato...