About the death of Aleksandr Pushkin, the leading poet and writer of Russia, who was shot on a duel and died when he was 37.
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Aleksandr Kalyagin Vadim Medvedev Irina Kupchenko Elena Karadzhova Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy Andrey Myagkov Gediminas Storpirštis Anna Kamenkova Albert Filozov Ivan Krasko Sergey Zhigunov Mikhail Gluzskiy Rimma Markova Sergey Sazontev Vyacheslav Yezepov Vsevolod Kuznetsov Oļģerts Kroders Viktor Shulgin Vladimir Matveev Rem Lebedev Oleg Kazancheev Pavel Kornakov Aleksandr Romantsov Yelena Ivochkina Viktor Bychkov Petr Shelokhonov Yuriy Stoyanov Yuriy Oskin Tamara Timofeeva Rudolf Furmanov
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