February 10

In literary history

• 1837Alexander Pushkin died two days after a duel he had fought over rumours that a French officer was sleeping with his wife. Russia's greatest poet was thirty-seven; his opponent lived to ninety-five.

Writers born on February 10

• Boris Pasternak (1890),
• Bertolt Brecht (1898)

The Daily Canon for February 10

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (1957).