In the article the novel «Life and Death of Mikhail Lermontov» by G.D. Gulia in the context of fictionalized biographies is analyzed. The main subject of the book is art of poetry. Gulia recreates an outline of life of M.Yu. Lermontov, but also offers the unique vision of the subject «poet and poetry» in which are combined both sendings to Bible and Christian tradition, and philosophical reasonings on nature of creativity and destiny of the creator, and description of personal spiritual experience.