"Eugene Onegin": a summary of the novel in verse

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Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin is considered a genius, a pioneer in the creation of the literary language of our people. He left behind a multi-volume collected works and made a truly revolution in Russian versification. One of his most famous and outstanding works is the novel "Eugene Onegin", written in verse. This piece is brilliant.

It had such a huge impact on subsequent poetry that even the special terms “Onegin size” appeared - iambic 4-foot, and “Onegin stanza” - 14 lines (3 quatrains with three types of rhyme in a row - cross, pair and encircling, and then a couplet).

The novel "Eugenia Onegin", a brief summary of which will not take up much space, truly ranks almost on the first place in the list of Russian classics that must be read. It can be read at any age.

"Eugene Onegin". Summary

The action begins with a direct speech of the protagonist, Eugene Onegin, who goes to his dying uncle - a rich and tedious old man. But Eugene discovers his uncle "already on the table", and himself - the heir to a rich, but troublesomeestates. What follows is a story about the life of the protagonist. Evgeny Onegin (brief image content) - a secular person, a loafer, a dandy, a fashionista.

He makes a very thorough toilet in the morning, then he goes for a ride in a carriage, changes clothes for dinner for a long, long time, in the evenings he often visits the theater, where he is interested not in a play, but in young ladies. Eugene usually ends his day with a trip to a ball or a magnificent banquet.

But suddenly our playboy gets bored with the high society, and he decides to settle in the countryside. However, the hermit life soon bored him, and Eugene went to visit his neighbors, the Larins, with a poet friend Lensky, whose bride is the youngest daughter of the Larins. Larins are a provincial traditional landowning family. There are two daughters in the family - Olga and Tatyana. Tatyana is the eldest. She is a melancholic and somewhat strange girl. Olga, Lensky's fiancee, is a bright, he althy beauty. Tatyana, until this day indifferent to men, falls unconsciously in love with Yevgeny. Overwhelmed with feelings, she writes him a letter of confession, but Eugene remains indifferent. For the sake of fun, he begins to court Olga with the skills of secular red tape. Enamored, Lensky is jealous and challenges him to a duel, in which Yevgeny kills his village friend.

Onegin, after these events, has to leave these places and Russia in general for a long time. He travels a lot, but he cannot find peace anywhere. Finally, tired of traveling and not having received relief, he returns to St. Petersburg. There he meets Tatyana at the ballLarina, now the wife of a rich and noble nobleman. Onegin falls in love with her, but she refuses to cheat on her husband, although she does not hide the fact that she still loves him.

As already mentioned, Pushkin wrote many great works. "Eugene Onegin" is a book for all times, every cultured person must read it. The novel "Eugene Onegin", the summary of which, of course, cannot convey all the charm of the original, can be re-read endlessly. They even say that every self-respecting person should know the first stanzas of "Eugene Onegin" by heart. A person who has only read a brochure en titled "Eugene Onegin, summary" will not be able to fully appreciate the beauty of Pushkin's style, the richness of rhymes and means of artistic expression, and will not immediately recognize allusions and easily quote lines from "Eugene Onegin".