Alla Marchenko - avtor biografiy A.Ahmatovoy, S.Esenina.
«Esli by etot malchik ostalsya zhiv, ne nuzhny byli ni ya, ni Dostoevskiy». Narodnaya molva pripisyvaet eti slova Lvu Tolstomu. Ustnaya legenda vyrazitelnee, chem inye dokumenty. S etoy myslyu i dvizhetsya pove­stvovanie v knige «Lermontov», kotoroe A.Marchenko stroit svobodno, razrushaya stereotipy i ustarevshie suzhdeniya, no strogo priderzhivayas marshruta sudby i masshtaba lichnosti poeta.