Пушкин. Тайна гибели

A new book by Professor R. G. Skrynnikov, well known in Russia and abroad, is dedicated to Pushkin's duel. Approaching the study of the topic as a source and textual critic, he completely reconsiders the concept of the death of the great poet, while destroying the mountain of all kinds of myths. The author carried out painstaking work with the original manuscripts of Pushkin in the Pushkin House, with Zhukovsky's notes about the duel, diaries and notes of the poet's contemporaries, as well as with a set of documents from the Dantes archive, recently introduced into scientific circulation by the Italian researcher S. Vitale. The concept of Pushkin's death, proposed by Skrynnikov, can, no doubt, be called sensational, since it completely destroys the classical scheme of the history of the duel. Is it true that Pushkin became a victim of tragic circumstances? Was he really ruined by a monstrous conspiracy in which the Imperial family and high society participated? Is it true that this duel was for Pushkin an attempt to commit suicide? All these questions have not yet been answered. There is an opinion that at the end of January 1837, Dantes had a secret meeting with Natalya Pushkina, about which the poet was notified by an anonymous letter. A deadly duel followed the next day. Based on new sources (original manuscripts of Pushkin, diaries and notes of the poet's contemporaries, documents from the Dantes archive, etc.), Professor Skrynnikov managed to prove that it was not Natalya Nikolaevna, not Ekaterina Goncharova, but the third woman who caused the duel ...