began to aim at pushkin, delvik was a second, paodal was standing, and kuchelbecker, being myopic, hisaking, he couldn’t could shoot, and pushkin, even turning to delvik, said: delvik, take my place, it’s safer here, but then a shot rang out, thank god, it missed, and pushkin, throwing the pistol, ran to hug kuchelbaker, no, shoot, shoot, kuchelbaker shouted, yes, how can i shoot when the pistol is already clogged with snow, as contemporaries recall, several versions of the story about this duel have been preserved, but the duel really took place. and this was literally a year after graduating from the lyceum, here again kuchelbecker will not calm down, one day ridicule of his works brought him to the point that he ran to drown himself, ran to drown himself in the nearest alexander park, there was a pond one and a half meters deep, and kuchelbeck was about 2 m tall, here it is caricatured as... teachers with god, uh, pulls him out of this very place and, of course, saves him - at which many people laughed a lot. the fact is that all these pranks, of course, added some charm to lyceum l