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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 his servant Guillot to an event that is precipitated when this man dances with Olga at Tatiana’s name-day (10[1])celebration. Lensky is (10[1])killed in a duel (10[1])by, for 10 points, (10[1])what (10[1])title character of a verse novel by Alexander Pushkin? ■END■

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