Question

In the first decade of the 20th century, the poet Nikolay Gumiliev was drawn into an amorous correspondence with the Baroness Cherubina de Gabriak; unfortunately, Gabriak did not exist. For 10 points each:
[10e] Gumiliev was furious to discover that he had been catfished by Elizabeta Dimitrieva and Maximilian Voloshin. Gumiliev and Voloshin fought a duel on the site of the one lost by this Russian poet of “The Bronze Horseman.”
ANSWER: Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
[10m] Gumiliev’s second in the duel was this author, from a distinguished literary family. He wrote a novel in which Mstislav Sergeyevich Los leads a working-class revolt with the title princess of Mars, Aelita.
ANSWER: Alexei Nikolayevich Tolstoy [prompt on Tolstoy]
[10h] The poems of Cherubina de Gabriak were submitted to a journal of this name. A literary character of this name is a long-eared Senator whose study is destroyed by a bomb nicknamed “Pepp Peppovich Pepp.”
ANSWER: Apollon [or Apollon Apollonovich]
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2023 BHSU @ Berkeley03/18/2023Y316.67100%67%0%
2023 BHSU @ Maryland03/11/2023Y313.33100%33%0%
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern02/25/2023Y615.00100%50%0%
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield04/15/2023Y210.00100%0%0%
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo04/15/2023Y310.00100%0%0%

Data

Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy StyleCameron et al.100010
The Passion According to C.H.Parth et al.100010
Milan et al.The Vulture's Guide to Buzz100010