Duel Code

“The duel can and should only occur between the equals” - this is how the Count of Count Vasily Durasov begins, which has published at the beginning of the 20th century. However, they fought for honor since the time of Peter the Great, although fights have been prohibited by laws. The ritual looms from domestic fiction: seconds, the choice of weapons, barrier, steps, “come together”, “shoot”. Duels are an important cultural code of the highest classes and the culmination of favorite stories and novels. We offer to get acquainted with the official arch and compare with the duels described by Pushkin, Lermontov, Turgenev, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.