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Russian Short Story
YGK These Work of Russian Short Fiction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Author of “The Queen of Spades” | Alexander Pushkin |
| Russian army officer who hosts the gambling party at the start of “The Queen of Spades” | Naroumov |
| Historical figure who taught the countess the winning sequence of three cards | Comte de Saint-Germain |
| Engineering officer of German descent who schemes to learn the secret cards | Herman |
| Ward of the countess whom Herman courts to gain entry to the house | Lizaveta |
| Cause of the countess’s death | Fright (when Herman draws a pistol) |
| The three secret winning cards revealed by the countess’s ghost | Three, seven, and ace |
| Card Herman accidentally plays on the third night instead of the ace | Queen of spades |
| Final fate of Herman at the end of the story | He goes insane and is put in an asylum |
| Author of “Nevsky Prospekt,” “The Nose,” and “The Overcoat” | Nikolai Gogol |
| Thoroughfare in Saint Petersburg that serves as the title and setting of a Gogol story | Nevsky Prospekt |
| Painter in “Nevsky Prospekt” who falls in love with a prostitute and turns to opium | Piskaryov |
| Outcome for Piskaryov after his proposal is mocked | He cuts his own throat |
| Lieutenant who pursues a blond woman but is beaten by her husband, a German tinsmith | Pirogov |
| Item in which the barber Yakovlevich finds a nose | A loaf of bread |
| Owner of the missing nose in Gogol’s “The Nose” | Major Kovalyov |
| Rank or status indicated by the uniform the nose wears | State councillor |
| City to which the nose attempts to flee before being caught by the police | Riga |
| Reason Kovalyov initially blames Madame Alexandra Podtochina Grigorievna for his missing nose | He believes she cursed him to force a marriage to her daughter |
| Protagonist of “The Overcoat,” a poor government clerk who copy documents | Akaky Akakievich |
| Author who famously remarked, “we all come out of Gogol’s overcoat” | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| Tailor who tells Akaky that his old coat must be replaced | Petrovich |
| Amount of money Akaky scrimps to save for his new overcoat | 80 roubles |
| Event that leads to Akaky's death | He is robbed of his coat and contracts a fever |
| Author of “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” and “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” | Leo Tolstoy |
| Middle-aged magistrate whose death opens Tolstoy’s famous novella | Ivan Ilyich |
| The specific accident that leads to Ivan Ilyich's illness | He falls while hanging curtains in his new house |
| Peasant servant who provides comfort to Ivan Ilyich during his suffering | Gerasim |
| Ivan’s wife with whom he has an unhappy marriage | Praskovya Fedorovna |
| Peasant protagonist of “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” | Pahom |
| Entity who hears Pahom’s boast about not fearing him if he had land | The Devil |
| Nomadic people Pahom visits to acquire a large amount of land | The Bashkirs |
| The deal offered by the Bashkir chief | All the land Pahom can walk around in a day for 1,000 roubles |
| Amount of land a man actually needs, according to the end of the story | Six feet (for a grave) |
| Author of The Kreutzer Sonata | Leo Tolstoy |
| Man on a train who recounts the story of his marriage and a fatal affair | Basile Posdnicheff |
| Musical instrument played by Posdnicheff’s wife | Piano |
| Violinist with whom Posdnicheff’s wife plays a Beethoven sonata | Troukhatchevsky |
| Beethoven work that gives the novella its name | Kreutzer Sonata |
| Weapon used by Posdnicheff to kill his wife | Dagger |
| Reason Posdnicheff is ultimately acquitted of murder | Suspected infidelity of his wife |
| Author of “The Bet,” “Ward No. 6,” and “The Lady with a Dog” | Anton Chekhov |
| Amount of money the banker bets against the lawyer | Two million roubles |
| Original duration of the bet agreed upon (as opposed to the banker's five-year suggestion) | 15 years |
| Condition the lawyer must meet to win the bet | Solitary confinement (in a lodge on the banker's estate) |
| The lawyer's final realization after years of study | He scorns earthly knowledge and riches |
| Date and time the lawyer leaves the lodge to forfeit the bet | Five hours before 12 o’clock on November 14, 1885 |
| Two specific inmates in the run-down asylum of Ward No. 6 | Ivan Gromov and Moiseika |
| The asylum’s porter who confiscates begged items and beats the patients | Nikita |
| Doctor whose lax supervision leads to his own incarceration in the ward | Andrei Yefimitch Ragin |
| Doctor who replaces Andrei and tricks him into entering Ward No. 6 | Dr. Yevgeny Hobotov |
| City where Dmitri Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna first meet while on vacation | Yalta |
| The animal owned by Anna Sergeyevna | A dog (white Pomeranian) |
| Play during which Dmitri confronts Anna in her hometown | The Geisha |
| Dmitri Gurov’s profession and city of residence | Banker in Moscow |
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