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Konstantin Karlovich Danzas ( Russian: Константи́н Ка́рлович Данза́с) (1801 – February 3, 1870) was a Russian Major General, a friend of Alexander Pushkin, and his second in a duel with d'Anthès. [1] Danzas was born to a noble Courland family in 1801. He started his education in Moscow, but at the request of ...
Konstantin Karlovich Danzas (Russian: Константи́н Ка́рлович Данза́с) (1801 – February 3, 1870) was a Russian Major General, a friend of Alexander Pushkin, and his second in a duel with d'Anthès.[1] Danzas was born to a noble Courland family in 1801. He started his education in Moscow, but at the request of influential family friend, Countess Sofia Stroganova, he ...
Danzas carefully maintained his own small collection of valuable items related to Pushkin, including Pushkin"s death mask, rare letters and a turquoise ring that Pushkin himself gave him. Danzas died on February 3, 1870, alone, and was buried at state expense in the Catholic cemetery. In 1936 his remains were moved to the Tikhvin Cemetery of ...
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Pushkin was an impulsive man and fought many duels. Indeed, his fatal duel was the second time he had challenged Georges d’Anthès, a French officer in the Russian Guard, for besmirching his honor. The first occasion was in November 1836, when he received an anonymous pasquinade called “Certificate of a Cuckold”, which contained a clear allusion to ...
Adrian Volkov. The Last Shot, 1869 / Public domain The duel took place at Chernaya Rechka on the outskirts of St. Petersburg and had extremely harsh terms. In other European countries duelists usually shot at each other at a distance of 25-30 steps, but in this case the distance was set at just 10 steps. D’Anthès fired first and badly wounded Pushk...
Franz Krüger. Portrait of Nicholas I / The Hermitage Duels in Russia had been prohibited by Peter the Great and so took place in secret. The punishment for taking part in them severe, sometimes even death. As he lay dying, Pushkin managed to obtain Nicholas I's forgiveness for his second, Konstantin Danzas, through the tsar’s doctor. Danzas was imp...
Some people feel that Natalya Goncharova was somehow responsible for her husband’s death, as she was either unable or unwilling to end the rumors linking her to d’Anthès. The poet Anna Akhmatova called her an “accomplice of the Heeckerens in the build-up to the duel”, while Marina Tsvetaeva wrote: “A beauty and nothing else, just a beauty, without ...
Pushkin's Farewell to the sea 1877 by Ivan Aivazovsky,Ilya Repin / National Pushkin Museum Pushkin is thought to have made more than 20 challenges to duels – receiving seven himself. Four of these resulted in duels, while the others were largely avoided thanks to the poet’s friends. Pushkin was just 17 when he made his first challenge. He was offen...
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Feb 3, 2017 · Russian Imperial Army Major General. Born to a noble Courland family in Saint Petersburg, Russia, he graduated from Tsarskoe Selo Lyceum, in 1817 and began a military career. Through out his career, he distinguished himself in many military campaigns and was awarded the Golden Sword for valor, in 1828. In 1836, as a...
Konstantin Karlovich Danzas (Russian: Константи́н Ка́рлович Данза́с) (1801 – February 3, 1870) was a Russian Major General, a friend of Alexander Pushkin, and his second in a duel with d'Anthès. Danzas was born to a noble Courland family in 1801.
Dec 13, 2018 · As a result, he filed a petition for a transfer to the Caucasus. True, later in the Tenginsky regiment in which Danzas served, soldier's rumor insisted that the lieutenant colonel was exiled here because of enmity with his superiors and participating in Pushkin's duel, but this seems unlikely, given the rank of Konstantin Karlovich and so on.
