Letters of Georges d'Anthès to Baron Heeckeren

2 hrs. 58 min.

Miscellaneous

Language Russian

Author Georges d'Anthès

Narrator Vyacheslav Gerasimov

Description

For more than 150 years, Russia has lived with a national tragedy—the death of Pushkin—and this has come with a desire to penetrate the mystery of Dantès’s personality. On our side, so to speak, there is Pushkin with his academic collection of works behind him, while behind the second duelist there is, in essence, nothing. Of course, this “Dantès mystery” gives the entire story the necessary romantic tint, but any word of Dantès would be heard by us with the utmost attention. And then something happened that we could not believe: Georges Dantès’s letters were found—not just one or two, but as many as 25. They were still unpublished in Russian and had never been properly read by anyone. They still contained hundreds of future works that would be written about them. Today we offer a sensational piece of material—the handwritten letters of the duelist-winner.