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In a poem to Anatoly Marienhof (“mah-ree-yen-HOFF”), Sergei Esenin (“yeh-SEN-in”) declared himself the “last poet” of these places by writing poems like “The Birch Tree.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Valentin Rasputin’s Farewell to Matyora exemplifies a style of Thaw-era “Prose” evoking what places? Maxim Gorky praised a novel by Ivan Bunin in which Balashkin claims, “All Russia is nothing but” one of these places.
ANSWER: villages [accept Village Prose or The Village; accept derevnya]
[10m] Esenin’s fellow “new peasant poet” Nikolai Klyuev (“KLEW-yeff”) wrote poems imagining this person as homosexual. Alexander Blok’s The Twelve ends on the image of this person, who consoles his mother in the tenth section of Anna Akhmatova’s “Requiem.”
ANSWER: Jesus Christ [or Jesus Christ] (“Crucifixion” is the tenth section of “Requiem.”)
[10e] The earlier peasant poet Nikolay Nekrasov aided in the abolition of serfs as editor of The Contemporary by publishing this author’s collection A Sportsman’s Sketches.
ANSWER: Ivan Turgenev [or Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev]
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Chicago ARutgers0101020ME
Chicago BMinnesota0101020ME
Columbia ANorth Carolina A001010E
Columbia BMaryland001010E
Cornell ATexas0101020ME
Georgia StateYale001010E
Georgia TechJohns Hopkins001010E
HarvardToronto B001010E
Illinois BRIT001010E
IndianaIllinois A10101030HME
LSEBritish Columbia0101020ME
MITToronto C0101020ME
MichiganVirginia0101020ME
NYUFlorida0101020ME
North Carolina BOhio State010010M
OttawaWaterloo B001010E
Penn StateWUSTL B0101020ME
Toronto AStanford1001020HE
UC Berkeley BArizona State0101020ME
UCFCornell B001010E
VanderbiltWinona State001010E
Virginia TechIowa State0101020ME
WUSTL ANorthwestern0101020ME
Waterloo AUC Berkeley A001010E

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2025 ACF NationalsYes2415.8396%54%8%