The right to the duel: Pushkin and power

In the gloomy 1921, in his famous speech "On the appointment of the poet", Alexander Blok proposed an immortal formula: "Fun name - Pushkin". And he added: "The role of the poet is not light and not fun: it is tragic.
These words could be taken by the epigraph to the book of the famous historian and writer Jacob Gordin. This is a book about the tragedy of the poet and thinker, who died, fulfilling his duty to Russia.
On this path, A. S. Pushkin, who preached the idea of ​​honor and nobility as the basis of true patriotism, faced the ideologist of the Nikolaev reign of the Minister of Education S. S. Uvarov, a supporter of the Enlightenment of Slavery, which represented a powerful imperial bureaucracy. And this collision turned out to be deadly. The tragedy of Pushkin, who had foreseen the upcoming disasters and dreamed of preventing them, was a continuation and completion of the tragedy of the “noble avant -garde”.
Half, slander, loneliness forced Pushkin to choose the most radical way of struggle, fighting weapons in his hands - a duel