Mikhail Lermontov
MS "Mikhail Lermontov", launched in 1972, was the last of the five "poet" ships: , , (now "Marco Polo"), and "Mikhail Lermontov", named after famous Ukrainian, Georgian and Russian writers (Ivan Franko and Taras Shevchenko being Ukrainian, and Shota Rustaveli being Georgian), built to the same design at V.E.B. Mathias-Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany. Mikhail Lermontov, born 1814 and died 1841, was known as the "poet of Caucasus."