Eight editions, ten years of work with interruptions, a deeply personal work about the eternal confrontation of Good and Evil, which drew a line under Russian romanticism — all this is about the poem "The Demon".For the first time, Lermontov turned to her plan as a fifteen—year—old boy, and since then the image of a Demon - a rebellious spirit overcome by passions and doomed to eternal loneliness - like an obsession entered the poet's work and pursued him until his tragic death. The collection also includes poems from different years representing Lermontov's creative life before and after the "Demon": "Corsair", "Criminal", "Two Brothers", "Two Slaves", "Julio", "Azrael", "Angel of Death", "Confession", "Sailor" and "A fairy tale for children."