The duelist
The Duelist ( Russian Бретёр , Bretjor) is a novella by the Russian writer Ivan Turgenew , which was written in 1846 and published in January 1847 in the Otetschestwennye Sapiski .
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The duelist is the staff rider Avdej Ivanovich Lutschkow, who is around 35 years old. It is said that the unsightly "archer" had "already killed several people" in the duel.
In May 1829, the N-Sche cuirassier regiment quartered for field exercises in the village of Kirillowo in the southern Russian government of K. Lutschkow takes on the young cornet Fyodor Fyodorowitsch Kister. In the duel, Lutschkow slightly wounded the “good-hearted enthusiast” Kister and, to the amazement of the seconds, apologized to the slightly injured man. From then on, the two are friends and frequent the house of the Kirillovo landowner Perekatov. Marja, called Maschenka, the 18-year-old daughter of the house, is interested in Lutschkow precisely because he is supposed to be such a "terrible duelist". Lutschkow leaves the interest cold. Kister thinks the girl loves her boyfriend and brings them both together. Maschenka breaks off the rendezvous in the forest above the Lange Wiese, shortly before the "booby" Lutschkow becomes intrusive.
The rejected Lutschkow cannot get over the fact that Kister and Maschenka want to get married. He kills the friend in a duel.
Text output
- Ivan Turgenev: The Duelist. A novella. German by Alexander Eliasberg. 143 pages. South Bavarian Publishing House, Munich-Pullach 1922.
Output used:
- The Duelist, pp. 95-174 in: Iwan Turgenew: Diary of a superfluous man. The duelist. Translated from Russian by Eva and Alexander Grossmann. 191 pages. Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, Weimar 1972.
Web links
- The text
- online in the Gutenberg-DE project . Translator: Alexander Eliasberg
- Бретёр (Тургенев) (Russian)
- online at Lib.ru / Classic (Russian)
- online at RVB.ru (Russian)
- Entries in WorldCat
- Entry in the laboratory of the fantastic
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- ↑ Since we are talking about black earth fields (Russian Чернозёмы ), K. could mean the Kauskasus Governorate (Russian Кавказская губерния ), Kazan or Kiev .