Baron Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès was a French military officer and politician. Despite his later career as a senator under the Second French Empire, d'Anthès is mostly known for fatally wou
Georges-Charles d'Anthès (1830)
Baron Georges d'Anthès in later life, after he had retired from politics (1878)
D'Anthès' grave. Soultz. June 2009
Grave of Yekaterina Goncharova
Alexander Pushkin
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Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, as well as the founder of modern Russian liter
Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès
…and politician. Despite his later career as a senator under the Second French Empire, d'Anthès is mostly known for fatally wounding the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin in a duel in 1837. Born in Colmar to aristocratic Alsatian parents, the first boy among six children, he was destined for a military career. He was…
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Portrait [ru] by Orest Kiprensky, 1827
Coat of arms of the Pushkin family
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Pushkin in his youth, by Sergey Chirikov [ru]
Arina Rodionovna Yakovleva (1758 - August 12, 1828) at ages 70, the serf of Hannibal family and nanny of Alexander Pushkin.