I remember a story that was a few years ago.
The student begins her report and says literally the following:
As the great Russian poet Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy wrote.
Guess it, I say. Have you read Tolstoy’s poems?
Oh yes! - she cries out with the traditional student intonation "how could I forget" and begins again:
As the great Russian poet and writer Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy wrote.