however , at a pushkin - goethe tournament hosted recently in leningrad to observe the readers ' birthdays ( this year is goethe ' s 250th ) , dmitry prigov , a retro - soviet author and an artist , took the first line from " onegin " ( " my uncle - good standards inspire him " ) and set it to buddhist and muslim mantra and eastern catholic and liturgical chants .
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Germany.