The story of Pushkin's duel is shrouded in a dense veil of myths and legends. The author of this book is Professor of St. Petersburg University R.G. Krynnikov, well known to readers in Russia and abroad, - did a great job with the originals of Pushkin's manuscripts in the Pushkin House, with Chukovsky's notes about the duel, diaries and notes of the poet's contemporaries, as well as with the complex of documents of the Dantes archive, recently put into scientific circulation by the Italian researcher S. Vital.First approaching the study of the topic as a source and textologist, the historian destroyed the mountain of myths about Pushkin's duel, accumulated in science.