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Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès
French military officer and politician (1812–1895) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Baron Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès (born Georges-Charles d'Anthès; 5 February 1812 – 2 November 1895) was a French military officer and politician. Despite his later career as a senator under the Second French Empire, D'Anthès is mostly known for fatally wounding the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin in a duel in 1837.
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