During a Christmas party, this character attempts to shoot the lawyer Komarovsky, but hits a prosecutor instead. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this character. After her husband’s disappearance during World War 1, this character becomes the lover of a physician who writes poems such as “Hamlet” and “Holy Week” during the Russian Civil War.
ANSWER: Lara Antipova [or Larissa Fyodorovna Antipova or Larissa Fyodorovna Guichard; prompt on Antipova or Guichard]
[10m] The love affair between Lara and Yuri is chronicled in this author’s novel Doctor Zhivago.
ANSWER: Boris Pasternak [or Boris Leonidovich Pasternak]
[10e] Lara’s final fate is unclear, although she likely dies in one of these locations. In a non-fiction work, Alexander Solzhenitsyn (“sol-zhuh-NEET-sin”) chronicled life in an “archipelago” of these Soviet labor camps.
ANSWER: gulag [accept The Gulag Archipelago]
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