| Author | Apollon Maykov |
|---|---|
| Original title | Три смерти |
| Language | Russian |
| Subject | Philosophy of death in the Ancient Rome |
| Genre | lyrical drama |
Publication date | 1857 |
| Publication place | Russian Empire |
Three Deaths (Russian: Три смерти, romanized: Tri smerti) is a lyric drama by Apollon Maykov. Its original version, called "The Choice of Death", finished in 1851, had problems with censorship and was first published, severely cut, under the title Three Deaths in 1857, in the October (No.10) issue of Biblioteka Dlya Chtenyia. The final version of it appeared in the Complete A.N. Maykov (1893).[1]