While visiting a spa town, this protagonist outbid
While visiting a spa town, this protagonist outbids a woman, of whom he was once enamored, for a Persian rug and then puts it on his horse. Later, after killing a fellow officer in a duel, he witnesses the kidnapping and murder of the girl Bela after he is dispatched to Chechnya. His story is told via his journals, which the author received from the protagonist's friend Maksim Maksimych. For 10 points-- name this Superfluous Russian protagonist of Mikhail Lermontov's Hero of Our Time.
While visiting a spa town, this protagonist outbids a woman, of whom he was once enamored, for a Persian rug and then puts it on his horse.
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