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Death of a romantic poet
From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19990411
Author:ROBERT TAYLOR
Pushkin's Button By Serena Vitale. Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein and Jon Rothschild. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $30. Who killed Russia's greatest poet, Alexander Pushkin? The conceited, arrogant minister of public education? The sullen female Metternich? The Jesuit with the angelic look? The lame jester?
Pushkin, as the world knows, died more than 150 years ago, in a duel eerily like the one he prefigured in Eugene Onegin, and Russian letters have been haunted by his spirit ever since.
He was a victim of his own fractious temperament, the slander of the St. Petersburg salons, ...
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