Chernaya River (Saint Petersburg)

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For other Chernaya Rivers, see Chernaya River.

The Chernaya River (Russian: Чёрная Речка), originally Mustajogi (in Karelian) also known as the Tchernaya Rechka or Black River, is a small river in Saint Petersburg.

The Chernaya is known for famous duels that took place there, including the 1909 duel between Nikolai Gumilyov and Maximilian Voloshin over the matter of a fictitious poet called Cherubina de Gabriak [in Finnish language: Kaprijakin (Kaprion) Kerubitar], and the fatal duel between poet-playwright Aleksandr Pushkin and his romantic rival Georges d'Anthès.

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