How it was 06/05/1999 (1999)

The Duel of Alexander Pushkin, 1837.

January 27, 1837 Alexander Pushkin was fatally wounded in a fight with the lieutenant of the Cavalry Regiment Georges Dantes.

The death of the poet was the greatest tragedy for Russian culture.

The history of the duel is shrouded in a dense veil of myths and legends.

Numerous facts drown in the mass of puzzles and hypotheses.

To this day, it is fair to remark that the poet's work and death have been studied much deeper than his whole life.

The host talks with famous Russian Pushkinists and cultural figures, trying to use them to clarify the details of the biography of Alexander Pushkin, important for recreating the tragic history of his death.

The program was attended by: People's Artist of the USSR Alexei Batalov, academicians Dmitry Likhachev and Alexander Panchenko, senior researcher at the Institute Russian Literature (Pushkin House) Yanina Levkovich and the curator of the manuscripts of Alexander Pushkin Tatyana Krasnoborodko, research associate at the All-Union Museum named after A.Pushkina Vera The deputy director of the museum Raisa Jesuitov, director Yury Lyubimov, poet Andrei Voznesensky, writer Andrey Bitov also began to obscure.

Personnel chronicles: the opening of the monument in the place of Pushkin's duel, Bulat Okudzhava reads verses at the monument in Mikhailovskoye on the day of the 140th anniversary of the death of the poet, a fragment of the film "The Star of Captivating Happiness" (1975, directed by V. Ya.

Motyl), the jubilee exhibition for the 100th anniversary of the death of the poet on the Moika, 12.