一八三七年二月八日下午,从阴沉的彼得堡郊区传出的一声骇人的枪响,宣告了辉耀于诗国天宇中的一颗巨大星辰的殒落:俄国文学之父、俄罗斯最伟大的人民诗人亚历山大·谢尔盖耶维奇·普希金(一七九九—一八三七)在一次决斗中“低垂下他那高傲不屈的头颅,胸中带着铅弹和复仇的渴望!”(引自莱蒙托夫:《诗人之死》) 普希金在决斗中死于妻子的追逐者丹代 On the afternoon of February 8, 1837, an appalling gunfire from the gloomy suburbs of Petersburg declared the fall of a giant star in the sky of the poetic kingdom: the father of Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin, the greatest poet of Russia, from 1799 to 1837, "bowed his proud, indomitable head in a duel with the desire of lead bullets and revenge in his chest (Quoted from Lermontov: The Death of a Poet) Pushkin died in the duel of his wife Chase