Question
Answer the following about Russian novels depicting the Caucasus region, for 10 points each.
[10e] Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Prisoner of the Caucasus shares its name with a narrative poem by this other author. This author of The Captain’s Daughter wrote the verse novel Eugene Onegin.
ANSWER: Alexander Pushkin [or Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin]
[10h] This other Tolstoy novella set in the Caucasus mountains begins and ends with the image of a crushed crimson thistle. The title guerrilla leader of this novella dies fighting the Russians after leaving them to rescue his family.
ANSWER: Hadji Murat [or Hadji Murad]
[10m] The seminal Caucasus novel is often considered to be a novel by this author about the various episodes of the superfluous man Pechorin (“peh-CHOR-in”), titled A Hero of Our Time. This author is sometimes called the “poet of the Caucasus.”
ANSWER: Mikhail Lermontov [or Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov]
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