Question
A subject of this empire converses with a fiery spirit resembling his sister Elsa after falling on hard times in its metropole. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this empire, the setting of the novella “The Salamander.” A country in this empire that was called its “little” counterpart is the setting of the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka.
ANSWER: Russia [or Russian Empire or Rossiya or Rossiyskaya Imperiya] (“The Salamander” is by Vladimir Odoyevsky.)
[10h] Imperial Russia only features explicitly in this entry of Nikolai Gogol’s Dikanka stories. In this story, the Devil flies a blacksmith to St. Petersburg so he can ask Catherine the Great for her slippers.
ANSWER: “Christmas Eve” [or “The Night Before Christmas”; or Nich pered Rizdvom]
[10m] Antony Pogorelsky’s My Evenings in Little Russia is an imitation of this author. A Soviet circle called the Serapion Brothers drew on the “serapiontic principle” of this author, whose Golden Pot influenced Gogol.
ANSWER: E. T. A Hoffmann [or Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann; or Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 20 | 6.50 | 45% | 15% | 5% |
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| Arizona State | Cornell B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Berkeley B | Virginia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Brown | Chicago C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Columbia A | Illinois | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Waterloo | Columbia B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago D | Cornell A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Duke | NYU | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech | WUSTL B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Harvard | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kentucky | Iowa State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan | North Carolina B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | Claremont Colleges | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Rutgers | Minnesota B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Indiana | North Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Ottawa | McGill | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Penn | Stanford | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt | Northwestern | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago A | Yale A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Purdue | Yale B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |