Aleksandr Pushkin, Yevgeny Onegin [Eugene Onegin]

A.D.P. Briggs (University of Bristol)

Ed. by Neil Cornwell, University of Bristol
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.1.00: Slavic and Russian Writing and Culture: Old, Medieval and Tsarist, 700-1917.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1825 - 1833

Places

Russia (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Epic
Poetry (any)

Resources

This “novel in verse” (as it is subtitled), Evgenii [or Yevgeny] Onegin [Eugene Onegin], Alexander Pushkin’s masterpiece and the highest achievement of Russian poetry, was written over an eight-year period (1823-31) in the poet’s prime. It tells the story of a bored man-about-town, Eugene Onegin, who retires to the country on inheriting his uncle’s estate. There he meets and apparently befriends a young neighbour, Vladimir Lensky, who is in love with a local girl, named Olga Larina. Her elder sister, Tatiana, falls in love with Onegin and naïvely offers herself to him in a long letter, but he is not interested, and rejects her approach. Invited to Tatiana’s name-day celebration, Onegin …

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Citation: Briggs, A.D.P.. "Yevgeny Onegin". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 May 2005 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11201, accessed 26 April 2024.]

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