Hardcover, 352 pages

SPb.: Azbuka; Azbuka-Attikus, 2014

ISBN: 978-5-389-04822-5 

Format: 70x100 1/16  

Aleksei Viktorovich Vostrikov — izvestnyi istorik, publitsist, sotrudnik Nauchnoi biblioteki im. Gor'kogo SPbGU. Ego kniga posviashchena zagadochnomu fenomenu dueli v russkoi istorii i kul'ture. Ona osnovana na memuarnoi literature, pis'makh, tsarskikh ukazakh i manifestakh, a takzhe opisaniiakh dueli v proizvedeniiakh russkikh klassikov. V knige posledovatel'no rasskazyvaetsia ob istokakh, iuridicheskom statuse, prichinakh, rituale dueli, o znamenitykh breterakh i dueliantakh. "Nadeemsia, — pishet avtor, — chto chitatel', poznakomivshis' s geroiami nashego issledovaniia, smozhet predstavit', chto oshchushchaet chelovek, kogda poluchaet poshchechinu, kogda vyzyvaet sopernika na poedinok, kogda pishet proshchal'noe pis'mo, kogda stoit u bar'era pered natselennym na nego pistoletom. My nadeemsia, chto issledovatel' russkoi kul'tury XVIII—XIX vekov, dazhe esli on ne soglasitsia s nashimi vyvodami, tem ne menee naidet dlia sebia material, kotoryi tonen'kim luchikom vysvetit pust' malen'kii, no vse-taki ochen' vazhnyi moment istorii".