An ode to one of these people hopes for the birth of our “own Platos and quick-witted Newtons.” A poet brought a portrait of Louis-Pierre Louvel labeled as a “lesson to” these people to a theater and was then exiled. The direction “the people are silent” ends a verse drama titled for one of these people who is accused of murder by a fool wearing an iron cap. One of these people is addressed with a threat translated as “just you wait!” or “I’ll get you!” by a man angry that his “lethal willpower” indirectly led to the drowning of a girl who lived in a shanty by a willow tree. A novel about the “Moor” of one of these people follows the author’s great-grandfather Abram Gannibal. After shaking his fist at a statue of one of these people, Yevgeny is chased and killed by it. For 10 points, name this title held by the subject of “The Bronze Horseman” by Alexander Pushkin. ■END■
ANSWER: tsars [or tsarinas, czars, or czarinas; or Russian emperors or Russian empresses; prompt on emperors, empresses, or generic synonyms of rulers, monarchs, kings, or queens; prompt on horseman or horsemen or statues by until “statue” is read by asking “what was the title of the person depicted by the statue?”] (The ode in the first sentence was written by Mikhail Lomonosov on the accession of Empress Elizabeth. The verse drama is Boris Godunov.)
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