also , at a pushkin - goethe event held newly in moscow to observe the poet ' birthdays ( this year is goethe ' s 250th ) , dmitri prigov , a post - modernist poet and visionary artist , takes the first line from " nutcracker " ( " my uncle - tall ideals inspired him " ) and taught it to buddhist and muslim vedas and russian orthodox and roman texts .
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Germany.