Konstantin Karlowitsch Dansas

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Constantine Danzas (1836)
Alexander Pushkin (1827)
Pushkin's death mask

Konstantin Danzas ( Russian Константин Карлович Данзас , also transcribed as Danzas * 1801 , † 3. February 1870 ) was a Russian major general and Sekundant Alexander Pushkin in his duel with Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthes .

Youth and military time

Konstantin Dansas came from an aristocratic Kurland family and attended the Lyceum Tsarskoje Selo , where Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837), Anton Delwig (1798–1831) and Wilhelm Küchelbecker (1797–1846) were among his classmates. After finishing school in 1817, he entered the military and took part in several campaigns. He has received several awards for his bravery; In 1828 he was wounded.

Pushkin's duel

On January 27th, July / February 8, 1837 greg. Dansas was the second of Alexander Pushkin in his duel with Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès (1812-1895), in which the poet was fatally wounded. For his part, Dansas wanted to challenge d'Anthès to a duel, but the dying Pushkin stopped him and asked Tsar Nicholas I for mercy for his second. Dansas stayed with Pushkin until his death on January 29th . / February 10, 1837 greg. , after that he was imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress for participating in this duel and sentenced to death by hanging. However, the death sentence was commuted to two months of imprisonment , an honorable form of imprisonment.

Later years

After his release, Dansas returned to the military. He applied for his transfer to the Caucasus , where he became the commander of a regiment in which Mikhail Lermontov also served after his punitive transfer. In 1856 he took his leave with the rank of major general . The feeling that he was partly responsible for Alexander Pushkin's death clouded his mind. He kept some mementos of the poet, including his death mask . Konstantin Dansas remained unmarried and died on February 3, 1870. In 1936 his remains were reburied in a grave in the Tikhvin cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery .

See also

literature

  • danzas-konstantin-karlovich (Russian Данзас Константин Карлович) . ( persona.rin.ru (Russian) [accessed October 20, 2010]).
  • danzas, konstantin-karlovich (Russian Данзас, Константин Карлович) . ( dic.academic.ru (Russian) [accessed on October 20, 2010]).
  • Rolf-Dietrich Keil: Alexander Pushkin. A poet's life . Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-458-34482-9 , p. 444 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf-Dietrich Keil: Alexander Puschkin. A poet's life . 2001, p. 444 .
personal data
SURNAME Dansas, Konstantin Karlowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Данзас, Константин Карлович (Russian spelling); Danzas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian major general and second Alexander Pushkin
DATE OF BIRTH 1801
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1870