The horns play his sad theme, and he is the principal attraction at a carnival in a public square in Saint Petersburg.  He is in love with a ballerina who hates him and loves a handsomely attired Moor.  When he interrupts the Moors flirting, the Moor kills him, and the crowd erupts in anger, quieted
The horns play his sad theme, and he is the principal attraction at a carnival in a public square in Saint Petersburg.  He is in love with a ballerina who hates him and loves a handsomely attired Moor.  When he interrupts the Moors flirting, the Moor kills him, and the crowd erupts in anger, quieted only when a policeman reminds everyone that the victim is, after all, only a puppet.  For ten points, identify this title character, first danced by Waslaw Nijinsky, in a 1911 ballet by Igor Stravinsky.
The horns play his sad theme, and he is the principal attraction at a carnival in a public square in Saint Petersburg.  
Petrouchka