In one story by this man, a woman who wishes to be a princess tells the title figure to go find her a washboard from the sea, and in that story, the figure meets a talking fish who promises to make that woman the Ruler of the Sea.
In one story by this man, a woman who wishes to be a princess tells the title figure to go find her a washboard from the sea, and in that story, the figure meets a talking fish who promises to make that woman the Ruler of the Sea. In another work by this man, a noble named Saint Germain tries to find out the secret of how to never lose a certain game. In addition to "The Fisherman and the Fish" and "Queen of Spades", this author also wrote a work in which the protagonist spends his days sitting on a statue of a lion and constantly laments over the death of his lover Parasha. In the most famous work of this author, a morbidly obese "prince" named Gremin marries Tatiana, and the protagonist kills Lensky in a duel. For 10 points identify this Russian author of many fairy tales and the poems The Bronze Horseman and Eugene Onegin.
In one story by this man, a woman who wishes to be a princess tells the title figure to go find her a washboard from the sea, and in that story, the figure meets a talking fish who promises to make that woman the Ruler of the Sea.
Alexander Pushkin