The speaker declares that “an oppressed man / Strives again to reach the pure mountain” in this author’s poem “To the Moon.” An allegory of this real-life person is told “we’ve got Shakespeare there” and “we play solitaire / and violin” in the poem “Notes from a Nonexistent Himalayan Expedition.” This person’s words are “measures of weights” and fingers “ten thick worms” in a poem that describes “the huge laughing cockroaches on his top lip.” (-5[1])The novel (10[1])In the First Circle chronicles the rule of this person, the subject of an “Epigram” by Osip (10[1])Mandelstam. An autobiographical novel in three volumes set during this leader’s rule describes the timeline of a typical “zek.” For 10 points, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago describes the era of rule of what Soviet dictator? (10[1])■END■