meanwhile , at a gorky - goethe biennial created recently in moscow to observe the poets ' birthdays ( this month is goethe ' s 250th ) , dmitry prigov , a post - soviet poem and conceptual artist , took the one line from " onegin " ( " my uncle - high ideals inspire him " ) and added it to buddhist and muslim reciting and russian orthodox and gregorian chants .
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Germany.