Eduard Verner: His Majesty's Chamberlain

The death of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, who died at the age of 37 after a duel with his wife's seducer, still provokes speculation about the real background of the tragic events. Who and what was behind the famous duel between the Russian poet and the French lieutenant of the Tsarist Guard Georges d'Anthes? Listen to the original radio play by Eduard VernerThe production about the events leading up to the fateful duel was staged in 1988 by director Jan Berger in a Pilsen studio. It starred, for example, René Pribyl, Martin Zahalka, Pavel Kikinchuk, Jaroslav Konecny, Jan Gross, Jiri Samek, Martina Samkova.