Other friends rushed to the house when they heard the news and left very late: Zhukovsky, Vielgorsky,, Prince Meshchersky, Valuev, Turgenev. But none of them was allowed to see the patient. Spassky stayed with Pushkin. In a quiet moment the poet told him that the number 6 had always been bad luck for him: “His misfortune began in 1836, when he turned 36 and his wife was 24 (2 + 4 = 6); in the sixth chapter of Eugene Onegin there was a kind of presage of his own death, and so on. In other words, as he lay dying Pushkin himself thought of the sad parallel between him and Lenski.”
Pushkin’s Button by Serena Vitale. 1999. Page 281.
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