Pushkin’s Button

by Ann Goldstein (Translator), Ann Goldstein (Translator), Serena Vitale (Author)

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  Paperback
  2000

  $3.26

  The dramatic true story of the love affair between Russia's greatest poet, his wife and her lover, french hussar George d'Anthes -- and the tragic duel that followed. Pushkin's Button is an astonishing tour de force, a riveting account of the last few months of Pushkin's life before his death on 27 January 1837. It is also the story of the French soldier who killed him, Georges d'Anthes, a man in love with Natalya Pushkin, the poet's wife, the most beautiful woman in all St Petersburg. Vitale's extensive archival detective work has unearthed a mass of fascinating written material about this famous love triangle -- journals, letters, scraps of gossip by those in their circle -- that brings the indulgent world of 1830s St Petersburg, with its salons and imperial balls, vividly into focus. Sparkling throughout with Pushkin's own genial wit, Serena Vitale's book is, as George Steiner says, 'almost impossible to put down'.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1999

  $3.26

  Providing an account of the last few months of Alexandr Pushkin's life, this is also the story of the French soldier who killed him in a duel on 27th January 1837 - a man in love with the poet's beautiful wife. Vitale's archival detective work unearthed a mass of written material about this celebrated love triangle - journals, letters, scraps of gossip - that evokes the indulgent world of 1830s St Petersburg's salons and imperial balls.