Books like A Hero of Our Time: Book I Bela

This is my first Lermontov book, and, what a gem. This is the first part of his larger book As Hero of our time’, a set of stories set in the Caucasus. Stylistically so similar to Chekov and his descriptive narrative seen in The Duel and other stories. In part, this story was so similar to, I swore I was reading Tolstoy’s Haji Murad.