A famous dramatist and translator of this language advocated its classical forms in the "Epistle on Poetry.
A famous dramatist and translator of this language advocated its classical forms in the "Epistle on Poetry." This language's syntax and paragraph structures, though  not  this language itself, were used to write the innovative story "Poor Liza." The "Apologia of a Madman" was written in this language by a man imprisoned as "clinically insane" because he had published his vituperative "First Philosophical Letter" in 1836. This language, used in the letter that sparked the Chaadaev Affair, is used in a paragraph that describes Genoa and Lucca as the "family estates" of the Antichrist. This language appears in the opening paragraph of  War and Peace  because it was the language of the  literati in St. Petersburg. For 10 points, name this language spoken by the Russian elite and by the invading commander in War and Peace , Napoleon Bonaparte.
A famous dramatist and translator of this language advocated its classical forms in the "Epistle on Poetry.
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