A Fallen Idol Is Still a GodA Fallen Idol Is Still a God elucidates the historical distinctiveness and significance of the seminal nineteenth century Russian poet, playwright, and novelist Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov (1814 1841). It does so by demonstrating that Lermontov's works illustrate the condition of living in an epoch of transition. Lermontov's particular epoch was that of post Romanticism, a time when the twilight of Romanticism was dimming but the dawn of Realism had