One of this author’s title characters holds on to the beard of a dwarf for three days in a bid to rescue his bride, who was abducted on their wedding night. Another of this (10[1])author’s characters goes mad when Parasha’s home is destroyed in a flood, causing him to curse a statue. Vikram (10[3])Seth’s novel The Golden (10[1])Gate uses a type of stanza (10[1])that (10[1])this poet (10[1])developed (10[1])for a work whose title character rejects a love letter (10[2])by a girl (10[1])who later marries Prince Gremin. This poet of Ruslan and Ludmila used himself (10[2])as (10[1])a model for the character (10[1]-5[1])Lensky, (10[1])who is killed in a duel (10[2])by Tatiana’s (10[2]-5[2])love (10[1])interest. (10[3]-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this Russian (-5[1])poet (10[1])of “The Bronze Horseman” (10[2]-5[1])and (10[1])Eugene Onegin. (10[4])■END■ (10[10]0[21])