His The Two Brothers was rewritten by him as the novel Princess Ligovskaya, while his best play, 1836's The Masquerade, is a Russian Othello.
His early plays include Men and Passions, The Strange Man, and a work set during the Inquisition, The Spaniards.  His The Two Brothers was rewritten by him as the novel Princess Ligovskaya, while his best play, 1836's The Masquerade, is a Russian Othello. Following his exile to a military regiment, he began to focus further on poetic works such as "Mtsyri" and "Demon", which show the influence of the folklore and nature of the Caucasus.  FTP, identify this Russian author of the semiautobiographical A Hero of Our Time, killed in a duel in 1841.
His early plays include Men and Passions, The Strange Man, and a work set during the Inquisition, The Spaniards.  
Mikhail Lermontov