Pictured: Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

On February 10, 1837, the famous Russian litterateur Pushkin passed away at the age of 38.

character brief introduction

Pushkin, whose full name is Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, is a famous Russian writer, the founder of modern Russian literature, and the main representative of Russian Romantic literature in the 19th century. Pushkin's representative works include: "Ode to Freedom", "To the Sea", "To Chadayev", "If Life Deceives You", "Yevgeny Onegin", "The Captain's Daughter", "The Queen of Spades", etc., known as "the father of Russian fiction".

cause of death

In 1837, Dantes, the captain of the French gendarmerie, frantically pursued Pushkin's wife Natalia Nikolayevna Goncharova, and Pushkin and Dantes dueled. On February 8, 1837, Pushkin fought Dantes, resulting in a battle with Dantes. He was seriously wounded in the abdomen and died two days later on February 10 (January 29 of the Russian calendar) at the age of 38. His early death caused Russian progressive scholars to exclaim: "The sun of Russian poetry has set!"