I threw the names in the hopper and the winner is Nancy!

Thank you all for commenting.

Gubbinal:  Your Russian literature challenge sounds wonderful.

Jen:  Better luck next time!

Ellen:  You’d love Pushkin.  Eugene Onegin is brilliant and I know how much you love poetry.  I very much enjoyed Lermontov, partly because of the way he makes Eugene Onegin his own in the first important Russian prose novel.