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To: Ilaine who wrote (46093)	7/19/1999 11:21:00 AM
From: jbe	Respond to of 108807

Chekhov wrote a story entitled "The Duel," Blue, but it is not one of his most "famous" stories. You may actually be thinking of Lermontov's "Princess Mary," one of the four interconnected stories in his Hero of our Time, describing a duel between two officers serving in the Caucasus. One of the reasons the story is famous is that Lermontov himself was killed in a duel under very similar circumstances, also in the Caucasus, where he too was serving. He was only 26! Pushkin was 37 when he was killed in a duel. Sad. Russia's two greatest (that word again!) poets, killed in duels so young. Not a good period for poets in general. Shelley drowning at 29, Keats succumbing to TB at 26, Byron carried off by fever at 36... Boo hoo. Joan