Открытие памятника М.Ю.Лермонтову в Шотландии.

Saturday 3rd October 2015, Earlston in the Scottish Borders, a year after the 200th anniversary of Lermontov’s birth and arrival of the bust to Earlston. The official unveiling ceremony of the Mikhail Lermontov sculpture took place with Gwen Hardie representing the Thomas the Rhymer / Lermonth side and Mairi Koroleva from Moscow representing the Lermontov Family. The bust was gifted to Scotland in 2014 in acknowledgement of the link between the Thomas the Rhymer, the Learmonth and Lermontov families. Mikhail Lermontov, who died in a duel in 1841 at age 26, never got to see Scotland, but he was a descendant of a Scottish soldier of fortune, George Learmonth, who settled in Russia in the early 17th century and adapted his name to Lermontov. His standing in Russia was almost akin to that of Robert Burns. One of Lermontov’s first well known ancestors was a mysterious 13th Century Scottish poet and prophet from Earlston, known as Thomas the Rhymer. Also present at the unveiling were the Consul General of the Russ