Pushkin's Button question

I am fascinated by how so little is known in the west about the character of Natalya Pushkina and how the view o fher has varied from one sexist stereotype 'giddy heartless flirt' to anoher ' devoted wife' in Russia and to some extent elsewhere, from what Vitale says.

It is as if many writers (and I did think Binyon came rather into this category) dont like to think that the wife of a famous poet might have been attracted to another man.

There are few enough bigoraphies on Pushkin in English and of course, research must be very difficult to any but the most fluent readers of Russian.

In the whole story there are so many things that don't add up, fascinating clues that can't be followed up by the non reader of Russian. For instance, the odd fact that Vyazemsky is quoted by Vitale as saying that Pushkin asked Natalya who she would weep for in the duel and her reply was supposedly 'The one who is killed'. Vysazemsky was an admirer of hers, and it gives rise to all sorts of questions.

Then, while d'Anthes may have behaved caddishly in his open pursuit of a married women, it was only what Pushkin had done repeatedly himself. d'Anthes seems to have aquired an unfair reputation as a coward according to Vitale's research, this being the view taken by Binyon.

Then there is the whole mystery of the authorship of the anonymous letters...

Anyone interested in discussing all this?