M. Yu. Lermontov

The article is dedicated to the study of the theatrical legacy of Alexander Oskarovich Remez (1954–2001) – a Soviet and Russian playwright, who pioneered an atypical development line of the so-called "black comedy", where the game as a way of world perception and understanding becomes the dominant intratextual element.

In the present article it is attempted to substantiate analytically the elements of literary prototypical features of the title characters of M. Yu. Lermontov’s novel «Princess Ligovskaya» and the novel «A Hero of Our Time» as related to the main character of the novel by V. Ropshin «The Pale Horse». George’s individualism, the representative of the 1900s and the head of the terrorist group, goes back to the romantic individualism of Lermontov’s namesake hero and his follower – a «hero of the time».