🏙️ Natalia Goncharova was a beautiful Russian noblewoman. When she married a noble bureaucrat thirteen years her senior, she was just 18 years old. Natalia loved vanity and luxury as much as she possessed beauty, constantly putting her husband in financial distress.
Her husband, though a noble official, represented the weary lives of the people through works that criticized the dictator and accused officials of corruption. For this crime, the husband was forced into exile. During his exile, he delved deeper into the hard lives of the common people, and from that depth, many masterpieces were born.
Meanwhile, his wife Natalia's private life became increasingly promiscuous. Upon returning from exile, the husband was forced to fight a duel with Georges d'Anthès, a Dutch army lieutenant who had become Natalia's lover. Literary figures jealous of his writing skills, along with the government and officials who were the targets of his criticism, instigated this duel.
On this day, February 10, 1837, Alexander Pushkin died from a gunshot wound after a senseless duel. The funeral of Pushkin, called the father of modern Russian literature, was held secretly in his hometown to avoid public outcry. He was 37 years old.
Source: History of Progress and Resistance, Kim Sam-ung
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