The Pain of a Poet

Some believe he just meant to shoot him in the lower leg to hurt him, not kill him. He's losing a lot of blood and they're in a very remote place without a doctor around. So it seems like George, his immediate reaction based on that is that he didn't mean to shoot Pushkin in the stomach. It takes him two days to die. According to witnesses, he's stoic and remains calm throughout this extremely painful process.