"A Hero of Our Time" is the famous novel by Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, written between 1838 and 1840. The work is considered the first psychological novel in Russian literature, revealing the inner world of the protagonist, Pechorin, through a series of loosely connected episodes. The novel explores the theme of the "superfluous man"—a typical representative of the nobility's youth in the 1830s, disillusioned with life and society.