Question
This poet wrote “I keep in mind that magic moment” to open a love poem addressed to Anna Kern. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this Russian poet, who left that poem on a piece of paper in a copy of his long poem Eugene Onegin (“oh-NAY-gin”).
ANSWER: Alexander Pushkin [or Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin]
[10m] At age 15, Pushkin wrote a poem lamenting both the end of summer and a lost love with this first name. In War and Peace, a woman with this first name eventually marries Pierre Bezukhov after he leaves Princess Hélène.
ANSWER: Natasha [or Natalya; accept Natasha Ilyinichna Rostova or Natalya Ilyinichna Rostova]
[10h] Pushkin’s death, which resulted from accusations that his wife had taken a lover, inspired this author’s poem Death of the Poet. A novel by this author itself depicts a deadly duel between Gruzhnitsky and Pechorin.
ANSWER: Mikhail Lermontov (“LAIR-mon-tov”) [or Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov] (The unmentioned novel is A Hero of Our Time.)
<Joseph Krol, Literature - European - Poetry> ~20114~ <Editor: Joseph Krol>
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