1840 On New Year's Day, lermontov attended an aristocratic masquerade ball and wrote a poem "January 1st", which aroused great dissatisfaction among the court nobles and the upper class. In February of the following year, he was arrested for a duel with Ballante, the son of the French minister. The czar decided to exile him to the Caucasus again. Before he left, he wrote a painful poem "Cloud" that felt his "eternal wandering". When I was passing through Moscow, I attended Nikolai Nikolai Gogol's naming day banquet and recited a fragment of the long poem "Child Monk" (1839) just written for Nikolai Nikolai Gogol.