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The novel consists of five stories, each story tells a fragment. The first chapter "Bella" (Бэла) tells the story of Bi Qiaolin meeting the young and simple Bella, hoping to draw new life motivation from his love for her, but instead of saving him, this love brought destruction to Bella. The second chapter, "Maxim Maximovich" (МаксимМаксимыч), tells the story of the meeting between Bicholin's former commander and friend Maxim Maximovich and the indifferent protagonist. Beecholin went to Persia and died on the road without purpose or purpose. The tragedy of the protagonist of the novel is deepened on a psychological level through Bi Qiaolin's diary. The diary is divided into three stories, which are the relatively independent "Taman" (Тамань), "Princess Merry" (КняжнаМери) and "The Fatalist" (Фаталист). "Taman" tells the story of Bi Qiaolin who nearly died when he followed a smuggler out of curiosity. "Princess Merry" can be regarded as an independent work, and at the same time it is the most important part of "Modern Heroes". During the period of convalescence, Bicholin pretended to pursue Princess Merry out of jealousy of Grusinitsky and in order to indirectly get close to his old lover Vera. As a result, he was retaliated by Grusinitsky. Bi Qiaolin decided to end the matter with a duel. He killed Grusinitsky and abandoned Princess Merry, but Vera had quietly left him. "The Fatalist" is a psychological story, the last one in the novel, proving that Bi Qiaolin can still make a difference no matter what.

"Selected Poems of Lermontov" talks about how Lermontov created a lot of artistic wealth for mankind in his short life: more than 400 lyric poems, 25 long poems and two long poem fragments, three novels and two novellas, five plays and others. The era of tsarist tyranny in which he lived is gone forever, but his spiritual character of reflecting the people's wishes at the cost of his life and his artistic achievements of recreating historical reality with his original style have been recorded in history.

"Contemporary Heroes" consists of five relatively independent but mutually echoing short and medium-length stories: "Bella", "Maxim Maximich", "Taman", "Princess Merry" and "The Fatalist". It is the culmination of Lermontov's literary creation and pioneered Russian social psychological novels. The novel outlines a group portrait of the elite of an era through the experience of the protagonist Bi Qiaolin, reflecting the writer's thinking on the philosophical proposition of "individual existence" that is closest to the present and most oriented to eternity. It is an epoch-making work with exquisite artistic structure and profound ideological connotation. Guided by Professor Zhang Jianhua. Zhang Jianhua: Professor of the History Department of Beijing Normal University. His main research fields are Russian (Soviet Union) ideological and cultural history, Russian (Soviet Union) diplomatic history, Sino-Russian relations history, Russian Sinology history, and modern and contemporary world history.

"Modern Heroes" is a social psychological novel. Its language is like a lyric poem written by a poet. No matter whether it describes scenes or emotions, it is full of poetry. The protagonist Bi Qiaolin is an aristocratic young officer who serves in the Caucasus. He is full of energy, extremely intelligent, and has a straightforward personality, but he cannot find a goal in life. He is mentally empty, cynical, and causes trouble everywhere. He consumes his extraordinary intelligence and strong energy in half-truth and half-false love games and adventurous actions. His selfishness and callousness caused great misfortune to others and deepened his own inner pain and despair. Bi Qiaolin is another "superfluous man" image in Russian literature after Pushkin's Onegin, and has extraordinary literary and social significance.

"Contemporary Heroes" is Lermontov's masterpiece, describing the experience of Bitcholin, a young officer with a noble background, in the Caucasus. Because he could not avoid spiritual emptiness and moral degradation, he was dissatisfied with the secular reality, cynical, looking for excitement everywhere, making trouble and playing with women. The artistic figure of Bicholin marks the birth of the "superfluous man" who suffers from the disease of the times in Russian literature. "I want to live!" I want to be sad... Selected Poems of Lermontov" After Pushkin, another Russian poet is recognized as Pushkin's successor. Belinsky was hailed as Russia's "national poet". He reached the pinnacle of Russian romantic poetry with his poetry.