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Couched in Love

#377 Couched in Love
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Georgia:

The death of Russia's literary hero, Alexander Pushkin

Episode sources:

  1. “ABRAM PETROVICH HANNIBAL (1696?-1781)” by Nikolaus Wirth (Black Past)

  2. “Pushkin Sergevich Pushkin (1799-1837)” by Mike Phillips (BLACK EUROPEANS: A British Library Online Gallery feature)

  3. “Aleksandr Pushkin” by Dimitry Dimitriyevich Blagoy (Encyclopædia Britannica)

  4. “Alexander Pushkin” (Poetry Foundation)

  5. “Alexander Puskin” (Wikipedia)

  6. “Alexander Pushkin’s Duels” by Iryna Tymchenko (RinaTim.com)

  7. “Anna Kern” (Wikipedia)

  8. “Dying for pride: 5 facts about Pushkin’s tragic duel” by Alexey Timofeychev (Russia Beyond)

  9. “Life expectancy (from birth) in Russia, from 1845 to 2020*” by Aaron O'Neill (Statista)

  10. “Nabokov, Onegin, and the Theory of Translation” by Judson Rosengrant (The Slavic and East European Journal)

  11. “Natalya Pushkina” (Wikipedia)

  12. “Pushkin’s Date with Death” By George Steiner (The Observer)

  13. “Reading in Good Faith” by Caroline Lemak Brickman (ISSUE 20 | DIFFERENCE | SEP 2012, Hypocrite Reader)

  14. “Reviving Natalya Goncharova, Pushkin's Wife And Muse” by Anna Nemtsova (Newsweek)

  15. “The deadly tradition that killed Alexander Pushkin. The Anatomy & Rules of the Russian Duel” (Historium)

  16. “The Duel: Pushkin’s Favorite Topic in Fiction and Cause of His Fatal Wound” by Alexander Pushkin (Literary Hub)

  17. “The Last Duel and Death of Alexander Pushkin” (Russian Translation Blog)

  18. “THE PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY ILLUSTRATES PUSHKIN’S DUEL AND HIS LAST DAYS” (Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library)

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