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Separately published fragments detail this character’s journey to Tauris and his stay in Odessa. This character is last seen standing in “desolation / as if by thunder struck” before he hears a clink of spurs behind him in a 2008 translation by Stanley Mitchell. In a dream sequence, this man presides over a group of monsters in a hut which a woman is dragged to by a talking bear. This man claims that he would be a bad husband in a “sermon” used to reject a woman who wrote a love letter to him in (10[1])French. This protagonist angers Zaretsky by bringing (10[1])his servant Guillot (10[1])to an event that is precipitated when this man dances with (10[1])Olga at Tatiana’s name-day celebration. Lensky is killed in a duel by, for 10 points, what (10[1])title character of (10[1])a verse novel by Alexander (10[1])Pushkin? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Eugene Onegin [or Eugene; or Yevgeny Onegin]
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