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An ode to one of these people hopes for the birth of our “own Platos and quick-witted Newtons.” A poet brought a portrait of Louis-Pierre Louvel labeled as a “lesson to” these people to a theater and was then exiled. The direction “the people are silent” ends a verse drama titled for one of these people who is accused of murder by a fool wearing an iron cap. One of these people is addressed with a threat translated as “just you wait!” or “I’ll get you!” by a man angry that his “lethal willpower” indirectly led to the drowning of a girl who lived in a shanty by a willow tree. A novel about the “Moor” of one of these people follows the author’s great-grandfather Abram Gannibal. (10[2])After (-5[1])shaking his fist at a statue of one of (10[1])these people, (10[2])Yevgeny (10[2]-5[1])is chased (10[1]-5[2])and killed (10[1]-5[1])by (10[2])it. (10[2]-5[4])For (10[1])10 points, (10[1])name this title held by the subject of “The Bronze Horseman” by Alexander Pushkin. (10[1])■END■ (10[6]0[2])

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