What is the name of the fictional town where Dostoevsky's 'The Brothers Karamazov' is set?
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Skotoprigonyevsk
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What is the name of the fictional town where Dostoevsky's 'The Brothers Karamazov' is set?
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Skotoprigonyevsk
In what year was Fyodor Dostoevsky's 'Notes from Underground' first published?
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1864
What is the surname of the title character in Leo Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina'?
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Karenina
What is the name of the main character in Gogol's 'The Government Inspector'?
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What is the name of the protagonist in Vladimir Nabokov's Russian-language novel 'The Gift'?
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Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev
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