I mentioned in my previous post Arbenin, the hero
of Lermontov's play "Маскарад" (The Masked Ball, 1836) who poisons his
wife, because
Arbenin + L = rab + Lenin
(rab is Russian for "slave"; L is for
Lermontov)
Among young Lermontov's poems there is
"Предсказание" (Prediction, 1830) that begins:
Настанет год, России чёрный год,
когда царей корона упадёт...
The year will come, Russia's black
year
when the tsars' crown will
fall...
Alexey Sklyarenko