In one poem written in this language, a vision of Christ in a blizzard is seen by the title group of
In one poem written in this language, a vision of Christ in a blizzard is seen by the title group of soldiers, who are likened to the Apostles. In another work written in this language, a woman describes conjuring a reflection of her future lover by lighting "my treasured candles, one by one, to hallow this night" before taking a flashback to "The Year 1913; that poem was continually revised from 1940 to 1965. Edmund Wilson ineptly translated the most famous poem in this language, which uses iambic tetrameter and alternates masculine and feminine rhymes. Alexander Blok wrote in this language, which was used in a verse novel to depict a duel in which the jealous friend of the title character is killed. For 10 points, name this language of "Poem Without a Hero" and Eugene Onegin, written respectively by Anna Akhmatova and Alexander Pushkin.
In one poem written in this language, a vision of Christ in a blizzard is seen by the title group of soldiers, who are likened to the Apostles.
Russian [or russkiy yazyk]