The new work of historian and political scientist Alexander Kostin is an attempt to dispel the myths that have developed around Pushkin’s illness, duel and death. What ailment haunted the Russian genius for almost twenty years, and did the neo-Pushkin scholar Alexander Latsis correctly guess the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease? Is it really true that the poet wrote a lampoon about himself, that very “cuckold’s diploma”, and, most importantly, what goal could he have pursued? What secrets of the family life of the Pushkin couple did their descendants keep and continue to keep? Why in the case of the military investigative court there is actually not even a mention of what weapon Pushkin was mortally wounded with and there is no description of the bullet allegedly fired from Dantes’ pistol?.. Many questions related to the secrets of the life and death of A.S. Pushkin, the reader will find sensational answers in this book.