A Son of the Rock

Of all the things I expected to see in Earlston, a bust of Mikhail Lermontov, a Russian poet second only to Pushkin, was not one of them. However, Lermontov was descended from George Learmonth who emigrated to Russia from Earlston and may himself have been descended from Thomas the Rhymer.

In 2015 a bust of Lermontov was unveiled in Earlston:-

Information board:-

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