Death: 10th February 1837
Location: Svyatogorsky Monastery Cemetery, Pushkinskie Gory, Russia
Cause of death: Fatally wounded in a pistol duel.
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Location: Svyatogorsky Monastery Cemetery, Pushkinskie Gory, Russia
Cause of death: Fatally wounded in a pistol duel.
Photo taken by: Rappzula
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Notoriously touchy about his honour, Pushkin fought a total of twenty-nine duels. At the age of thirty-seven years, however, Alexander Pushkin was fatally wounded in such an encounter with Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès. D'Anthès, a French officer serving with the Chevalier Guard Regiment, had been attempting to seduce the poet's wife. Pushkin's early death is still regarded as a catastrophe for Russian literature.
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