FTP, name this novel centering on Pechorin, the masterwork of Mikhail Lermontov.
We know that its author read Sir Walter Scott because the protagonist of this novel reads Old Mortality the night before a pivotal event.  Its third section includes such characters as the strange blind boy, and the boatman Yanko, while the first section begins "I was traveling post from Tiflis."  Nabokov, in his English translation of this novel, compares a poem by its author to its five sections of "The Fatalist," "Princess Mary," "Taman," "Bela," and "Maksim Maksimych."  FTP, name this novel centering on Pechorin, the masterwork of Mikhail Lermontov.
We know that its author read Sir Walter Scott because the protagonist of this novel reads Old Mortality the night before a pivotal event.  
A Hero of Our Time or Geroy nashego vremeni