The brothel of Anna Markovna is compared to one of these structures in a naturalist social problem novel by Aleksandr Kuprin set in the district of Yama. For 10 points each:
[10m] Voschev works to create what sort of title structure as a starting point for a collective social housing project in a satirical novel by Andrei Platonov?
ANSWER: pit [accept Yama: The Pit or The Foundation Pit; accept Kotlovan; prompt on foundation]
[10e] Aleksandr Kuprin’s other major social novel, highly critical of the Russian army, is titled for one of these events. Mikhail Lermontov died in one of these events, as did the subject of his poem “Death of the Poet.”
ANSWER: duel [accept The Duel or Poedinok; prompt on killing or murder or shooting or being shot]
[10h] In Kuprin’s The Duel, Romashov abuses his Circassian servant, a Russian character-type reappearing as Prokhor Gromov’s companion Ibrahim in this novel. The Siberian Gold Rush is the setting of this socialist realist epic by Vyacheslav Shishkov.
ANSWER: Gloomy River [or Ugryum-reka]
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