Pushkin was the first Russian writer of European stature, and he is
among the very few artists - such as Homer and Shakespeare - to
have shaped the consciousness and history of an entire nation and
its language, thereby affecting the world at large. Eugene Onegin
is not merely the greatest poem in the Russian language by its most
influential poet: it is a global culture, social and political icon
of the highest order. The historical power of this work - a novel
in verse - is made all the more extraordinary by the simplicity of
its subject. Eugene Onegin is a story of disappointed love. Tatyana
falls for the handsome Eugene to whom she daringly makes advances.
He cooly rejects her, then flirts with her sister, Olga. When
challenged by Olga's fiance, Lensky kills him in a duel, seemingly
indifferrent to the grief he causes. (Ironically, Puskhin himself
was to be killed in similar circumstances in 1937, some seven years
after he completed the work). Onegin leaves the district. When he
returns four years later, Tatyana has married another man and it is
her turn to reject his advances. But it turns out that Onegin's
hauteur is affected: he has always loved her passionately. She
loves him too and both reflect painfully on what might have been.
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