Alexander Pushkin - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

This author started the journal The Contemporary as a financial venture that included Nikolai Gogol among its editors. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this poet, who had his literary ventures taken over after dying in a duel in a manner similar to Lensky from his poem Eugene Onegin.

ANSWER: Alexander Pushkin

[10m] This author had a scathing critique of the aristocracy removed from the end of the public version of his poem commemorating Pushkin’s death, “Death of the Poet.” This author also wrote A Hero of Our Time.

ANSWER: Mikhail Lermontov

[10h] After The Contemporary was taken over by Nikolay Nekrasov, this critic joined to promote western liberal ideas. The ideological radicalization of The Contemporary continued under this man’s successor, Nikolay Chernychevsky.

ANSWER: Vissarion Belinsky

<JF, European Literature>

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Summary


California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	15.00	80%	70%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	6	15.00	83%	67%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	18.75	88%	75%	25%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	15.00	92%	58%	0%

Data


UC Santa Barbara	Arizona State	10	10	0	20
UC Irvine	UCSD C	10	0	0	10
Toronto Metropolitan	Carleton University	10	10	0	20
McMaster A	Guelph	10	10	0	20
Queen's	Toronto B	10	10	0	20
Toronto D	Brock	0	0	0	0
Toronto E	Simon Fraser	10	0	0	10
Waterloo B	Toronto F	10	10	0	20
UBC A	McGill B	10	10	0	20
Ottawa	UBC B	10	10	0	20
Waterloo A	McGill A	10	10	0	20
Western B	Toronto G	0	0	0	0
Liberty B	NC State B	10	0	0	10
North Carolina A	Liberty C	10	10	0	20
Liberty A	North Carolina C	10	10	0	20
VCU	South Carolina A	0	0	0	0
South Carolina B	North Carolina B	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech A	Virginia	10	10	0	20
William and Mary	Virginia Tech B	10	10	0	20
UCSD B	UCLA A	10	0	0	10
UCSD A	UCLA B	10	10	0	20
Chicago E	Indiana B	0	0	0	0
Illinois A	Illinois C	10	10	10	30
Indiana A	Northwestern B	10	10	10	30
Purdue B	Northwestern C	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame B	Northwestern D	10	0	0	10
Purdue A	Illinois B	10	10	0	20
Chicago B	Chicago D	10	10	0	20
Washington A	Claremont	10	10	0	20
Harvard A	Bowdoin A	10	10	0	20
Southern Connecticut State	Bowdoin B	10	0	0	10
Brandeis A	Harvard B	10	0	0	10
MIT	Brandeis B	10	10	0	20
Yale	Brown	10	10	0	20
Carleton College	Iowa State	10	0	0	10
Missouri A	Georgia Tech A	10	10	10	30
Bristol	Edinburgh A	10	10	0	20
Edinburgh B	Southampton A	10	10	0	20
Imperial C	Cardiff	10	0	0	10
Montpellier	UCL	10	0	0	10
Southampton B	Oxford B	10	0	0	10
Oxford A	Warwick A	10	10	0	20
Warwick B	City St. George's	10	0	0	10
LSE	Birmingham	10	10	0	20
Imperial A	Cambridge A	10	10	0	20
Cambridge B	Manchester	10	10	0	20
Oxford C	Cambridge C	0	10	0	10
Imperial B	Durham	10	0	0	10
Chicago C	Chicago A	10	10	0	20