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But Boris's last name, Badenov, is an even deeper in-joke: it's a reference to the tsar (as even further popularized by Pushkin's play) Boris Godunov.

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Was it worth it?

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I would say so! I got started because I needed some airplane reading, but it went down pretty smoothly! And it had lots of observations about human nature that I'd say are still relevant

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