Publication of Eugene Onegin

Eugene Onegin is a novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin, written over about eight years and often regarded as the foundation of modern Russian literature. It tells the story of a bored, cynical young nobleman who rejects the love of a sincere country girl, Tatyana, and later regrets it after he kills his friend, the poet Lensky, in a duel. Chapters were first published in installments from 1825 and the complete work appeared in 1833. Pushkin wrote it in a special fourteen-line stanza, now known as the Onegin stanza, and filled it with irony and observations of Russian society. It inspired Tchaikovsky's opera of 1879, and Vladimir Nabokov produced a famous English translation.

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