he is smoke

Take a shot every time:

Someone drowns themselves in the Volga or things about drowning themselves in the Volga as means of suicide

#DRUNKRUSSIANVODKATIME

Rich gentry judge each other

Provincial backwaters go “old religion”

Adultery occurs but for completely legitimate reasons

A RANDOM OVERBEARING RUSSIAN MOTHER APPEARS

Someone mentions Pushkin

Someone directly quotes Pushkin but does not mention his name

Someone sobs over Pushkin’s legacy

Pushkin

Duels are thought about but are never engaged in

Duels are thought about and engaged in

A joke about Germans is made

Pious “ladies of the night” pop up

An unreliable narrator is present

Someone is exiled to Siberia

There’s a debate about serfdom

People bitch about peasants

People idolize peasants

Peasants

Slavophilia runs rampant

Someone wears “Western” clothing and is therefore a total sellout

Rich bitches speak French

Storms occur

Pan-Slavism is referenced

Superfluous men aka existentialist hipsters appear