Eugene Onegin (1825–1832) is the masterwork of Aleksandr Pushkin and the foundational text of Russian literary culture. Written in a unique stanza form — the Onegin stanza — it tells the story of the world-weary dandy Onegin who spurns the love of the provincial Tatyana, only to regret it too late. The novel in verse is witty, romantic, melancholy, and dazzlingly self-aware.
Pushkin’s influence on every Russian writer who followed — from Turgenev to Tolstoy to Dostoyevsky — cannot be overstated. This free EPUB download gives you direct access to the poem at the heart of Russian literature.