This writer created Hermann, who obtains three winning cards but ends up gambling away his fortune. This author of Little Tragedies and Queen of Spades set a poem against the backdrop of a stormy River Neva, where the ferryman Evgenii contemplates Parasha before bringing a statue of Peter the Great to life. In a verse novel
This writer created Hermann, who obtains three winning cards but ends up gambling away his fortune. This author of Little Tragedies and Queen of Spades set a poem against the backdrop of a stormy River Neva, where the ferryman Evgenii contemplates Parasha before bringing a statue of Peter the Great to life. In a verse novel by this author of The Bronze Horseman, the title character sermonizes about the boredom that would result from a potential marriage. This author wrote of Zaretsky, who does not prevent a duel over Tatyana Larina that results in the death of Vladimir Lensky. For 10 points, identify this Russian writer who created a superfluous man in Eugene Onegin.
This writer created Hermann, who obtains three winning cards but ends up gambling away his fortune.
Alexander Pushkin 