grand duchess elena pavlovna could live a quiet life in the shadow of her husband, taking care of thes the oldest member of the imperial family. and of course, to show what she was able to do directly for russia, for the good. her new homeland, which she valued very highly. elena pavlovna was the complete opposite of her husband; contemporaries noted her intelligence and education, for example, she learned russian from the teacher herself. in st. petersburg, elena pavlovna opened a salon, gathering writers, artists and composers around her, was friends with zhukovsky, turgenev, ivanov, rubinstein, and invited pushkin to the palace several times. here is a unique document, a letter from the grand duchess and her husband, in which she talks about the duel of the great poet. in the archive we found a letter from elena pavlovna addressed to her husband mikhail pavlovich, who was in italy at that time, where she wrote in great detail from her point of view view describes what happened during this duel story, which means where pushkin was wounded, his attitude towards this, that all of pete