This author started the journal The Contemporary as a financial venture that included Nikolai Gogol among its editors. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this poet, who had his literary ventures taken over after dying in a duel in a manner similar to Lensky from his poem Eugene Onegin.
ANSWER: Alexander Pushkin
[10m] This author had a scathing critique of the aristocracy removed from the end of the public version of his poem commemorating Pushkin’s death, “Death of the Poet.” This author also wrote A Hero of Our Time.
ANSWER: Mikhail Lermontov
[10h] After The Contemporary was taken over by Nikolay Nekrasov, this critic joined to promote western liberal ideas. The ideological radicalization of The Contemporary continued under this man’s successor, Nikolay Chernychevsky.
ANSWER: Vissarion Belinsky
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