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This is a trade paperback-sized uncorrected proof copy. In very good condition for its age. The covers are generally a little grubby. There are several stains on the front cover and a couple on the rear cover and a crease at the bottom left hand corner of the rear cover.
The story of the fatal duel which killed Russia’s greatest poet. At the time, next to the Tsar, the author of Eugene Onegin was the most famous man in Russia. Vitale’s astonishing piece of literary detective work is the account of the last few months of his short life
SYNOPSIS: “Alexander Pushkin died in excruciating pain on 27 January 1837, from gunshot wounds sustained in a duel two days earlier. It is also the story of Baron Georges d’Anthes who killed him, a man in love with Natalya Pushkin, the poet’s wife and the most beautiful woman in all St Petersburg.”
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