similarly , at a pushkin - goethe festival held 2012 in moscow to observe the singers ' birthdays ( this period is goethe ' s 250th ) , boris prigov , a post - modernist painter and conceptual artist , had the title line from " onegin " ( " my uncle - high ideas inspire him " ) and set it to buddhist and muslim veda and russian orthodoxy and gregorian chants .
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Germany.