“To my dear friend Andrey. M. Lermontov, 1830”, Lermontov’s inscription on the flyleaf, refers to his university friend Andrey Zakrevsky.
“Andrey Dmitrievich Zakrevsky, Lermontov’s classmate at the University of Moscow, a writer. According to Y. I. Kostenetsky, Zakrevsky was close to A. I. Herzen and N. P. Ogaryov at university, and together with them took part in the “Malov affair”.