Question

A subject of this empire converses with a fiery spirit resembling his sister Elsa after falling on hard times in its metropole. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this empire, the setting of the novella “The Salamander.” A country in this empire that was called its “little” counterpart is the setting of the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka.
ANSWER: Russia [or Russian Empire or Rossiya or Rossiyskaya Imperiya] (“The Salamander” is by Vladimir Odoyevsky.)
[10h] Imperial Russia only features explicitly in this entry of Nikolai Gogol’s Dikanka stories. In this story, the Devil flies a blacksmith to St. Petersburg so he can ask Catherine the Great for her slippers.
ANSWER: “Christmas Eve” [or “The Night Before Christmas”; or Nich pered Rizdvom]
[10m] Antony Pogorelsky’s My Evenings in Little Russia is an imitation of this author. A Soviet circle called the Serapion Brothers drew on the “serapiontic principle” of this author, whose Golden Pot influenced Gogol.
ANSWER: E. T. A Hoffmann [or Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann; or Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann]
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Arizona StateCornell B0000
Berkeley BVirginia0000
BrownChicago C0000
Chicago AYale A1001020
Chicago DCornell A0000
Columbia AIllinois0000
DukeNYU100010
Georgia TechWUSTL B0000
HarvardJohns Hopkins0000
IndianaNorth Carolina A1010020
KentuckyIowa State100010
MichiganNorth Carolina B100010
Minnesota AClaremont Colleges001010
OttawaMcGill0000
PennStanford100010
PurdueYale B0000
RutgersMinnesota B0000
VanderbiltNorthwestern100010
WUSTL AChicago B1001020
WaterlooColumbia B100010

Summary

TournamentEditionExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2024 ACF Nationals04/21/2024Y206.5045%15%5%