The end of one of his short stories features Colonel Burman coming home after the Napoleonic Wars; that story, "The Blizzard", was published at the same time as his novel about Peter Grineff and Marina.  
The end of one of his short stories features Colonel Burman coming home after the Napoleonic Wars; that story, "The Blizzard", was published at the same time as his novel about Peter Grineff and Marina.  One of this authors' title characters is captured by the evil sorceror Chernomor, whose power was in his beard, while the conflict between two composers is chronicled in Mozart and Salieri, one of his "Little Tragedies." The title character of another of his works is a Privy Councilor whose actions begin the Time of Troubles, and in another story, the protagonist sneaks into the home of a Countess and ends up scaring her to death, whereupon he starts seeing threes, sevens, and aces everywhere.   He is also famous for a verse novel in which Vladimir Lensky is killed in a duel over Tatyana. FTP, name this author of Ruslan and Ludmilla, Boris Gudonov, The Queen of Spades, and Eugene Onegin.
The end of one of his short stories features Colonel Burman coming home after the Napoleonic Wars; that story, "The Blizzard", was published at the same time as his novel about Peter Grineff and Marina.  
Alexander Sergeyevich {Pushkin}