This writer created Hermann, who obtains three winning cards but ends up gambling away his fortune.
This writer created Hermann, who obtains three winning cards but ends up gambling away his fortune. This author of Little Tragedies and Queen of Spades set a poem against the backdrop of a stormy River Neva, where the ferryman Evgenii contemplates Parasha before bringing a statue of Peter the Great to life. In a verse novel by this author of The Bronze Horseman, the title character sermonizes about the boredom that would result from a potential marriage. This author wrote of Zaretsky, who does not prevent a duel over Tatyana Larina that results in the death of Vladimir Lensky. For 10 points, identify this Russian writer who created a superfluous man in Eugene Onegin.
This writer created Hermann, who obtains three winning cards but ends up gambling away his fortune.
Alexander Pushkin 