Question

Answer the following about duels in Russian literature, for 10 points each.
[10e] In this author’s novella The Duel, the Darwinian zoologist Von Koren tries to kill his nemesis. This Russian playwright also wrote The Cherry Orchard and Uncle Vanya.
ANSWER: Anton Chekhov
[10h] Alexander Pushkin’s death in a duel was lamented in “Death of a Poet”, a poem by this “Poet of the Caucasus”. Pechorin and Grushnitsky duel in this author’s novel A Hero of Our Time.
ANSWER: Mikhail Lermontov
[10m] The nihilist Bazarov leaves Marino after being wounded in a duel with Nikolai, the uncle of his friend Kirsanov, in this novel by Ivan Turgenev.
ANSWER: Fathers and Sons [or Otcy i deti or Fathers and Children]
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