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Nikolay Gumilyov vs. Maximilian Voloshin, Dec. 5, 1909

ellauri014.html on line 1522: Two Russian Silver Age poets, Nikolai Gumilyov and Maximilian Voloshin, fought a duel over another poet, Lilya Dmitriyeva. She had rejected Gumilyov and he made some insulting remarks about her. Voloshin stepped in to defend the lady’s honor.
ellauri014.html on line 1524: The two poets had their duel on the Chernaya Rechka using Pushkin-era pistols. On his way to the venue, Voloshin lost one of his galoshes and declared that he would not leave the spot until he found it. The galosh was found, Gumilyov fired his pistol first and missed, while Voloshin’s pistol misfired twice. The two poets patched up relations only 12 years later.
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