Pushkin

Pushkin fatal duel with D'Anthes | Pushkin's Button by Serena Vitale | The duel in Pushkin's Eugene Onegin | Eugene Onegin (1999 Film) | Pushkin : A Biography by Elaine Feinstein | Other

See also Dueling in Europe: Russia.

Pushkin fatal duel with D'Anthes

Images of the dueling pistols by Stephany Gould from her Biography of Pushkin (adapted from Shaw's in The Letters of Alexander Pushkin). [ mirror ]

Web Archive: Anna Akhmatova (the poet), "A Word about Pushkin," , from a new collection of her prose. Concerns the snaky relationships surrounding the duel.

Pushkin's Button by Serena Vitale

Amazon. Pushkin's Button by Serena Vitale. Recent, much-debated examination of Pushkin's life and fatal duel. Oddly, there are only two Amazon reviews. Also available in hardcover.

The Complete Review has a review of Pushkin's Button together with selections from and links to other reviews. The Economist called it "the most hilariously overwrought biography of recent years."

New Statesman review by Pankaj Mishra.

For the most part, her manner is that of the over- enthusiastic, gossipy but moralising academic. She seems dazzled by the ballrooms and salons of St Petersburg, and her excited tone lends her story a certain charm. But she tosses too many clues our way; every character and story is exploited for local colour, and the narrative is clogged with unprocessed archival material.

Web Archive: "The senseless death of a great poet" by Doug Wyatt for the Savannah Morning News. Review of Pushkin's Button

"Pushkin and the Dutch Ambassador" by Shimshon Arad for the Jerusalem Post (review of Pushkin's Button).

The duel in Pushkin's Eugene Onegin

Amazon. Eugene Onegin by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, translated by Vladimir Nabokov (yes, that one). In contrast to most of those out there Nabokov's refused to put Onegin into rhyming English verse. The result is the most accurate version of Onegin available.

Web Archive: "Rejecting the duel-Rejecting Russian culture" by Dan Werbel-Sanborn, and a reply by Corey Effinger. Interesting opinions about the duel in Eugene Onegin. From the message board at the course 19th Century Russian Literature in Translation (Julie Cassiday, Williams College).

Eugene Onegin (1999 Film)

Amazon. Onegin with Ralph Fiennes and Liv Tyler. Directed by Martha Fines. The film is currently "priced for the rental market" but it should go down.

"Shooting Pushkin" by Ralph Fiennes about filming Eugene Onegin, published in the New Yorker June 1999. The duel scene proves tricky.

Web Archive: Hollywood Reporter Review .

Web Archive: Toronto Review Review .

Web Archive: Andrew Collins for the British Empire Online.

Ralph Fiennes returns to period frockumentary with this interpretation of Alexander Puskin's classic verse novel of fated love, gloomy introspection and huge sideburns. ... [Liv Tyler] is required to do little more than hide behind trees looking bewitching, but looks like an LA rollerblader in fancy dress.

Web Archive: Times of England Review .

Web Archive: L. Smith's Onegin fanpage.

Web Archive: Der Spiegel review (German).

Pushkin : A Biography by Elaine Feinstein

Amazon. Pushkin : A Biography by Elaine Feinstein. Also available in hardcover.

Elaine Feinstein's Pushkin page, including reviews of her Biography.

"A Russian Tragedy" by Meir Ronnen for the Jerusalem Post, a review of Feinstein's biography.

Other

"The Shot" (1830) by Alexander Pushkin. Short story.