Yes, a quadruple duel is a duel involving four people: after the opponents fight, their seconds face off.

On December 5, 1909, according to the new style, the last known duel of poets took place on the Black River in Saint Petersburg. At the very spot where 72 years earlier Alexander Pushkin and Georges d'Anthès had faced each other in a deadly duel, 23-year-old Nikolai Gumilev and 32-year-old Maximilian Voloshin shot at each other.

"The bloody grave awaits me, A grave without prayers and without a cross, On the wild shore of roaring waters And under the foggy sky, emptiness All around..."

The soul belongs to God, the heart to a woman, duty to the Fatherland, honor to no one!

The duel that took place in the park of the Forestry Institute on September 24, 1825, three months before the December uprising on Senate Square, left its mark on Russian history. The reason for the duel seemed trivial: a nobleman, heir to a vast fortune, Vladimir Novosiltsev, at his mother's insistence, ended up marrying Ekaterina Chernova, a not wealthy noblewoman to whom he was engaged.