Eugene Onegin

“Have you read Onegin? What is the “Onegin”? What do you say about Onegin? Here are the issues repeated constantly in the circle of writers and Russian readers, ”the writer, an entrepreneurial publisher and, by the way, the hero of the many epigrams of Pushkin Faddey Bulgarin, noted after the release of the second chapter of the novel. For a long time, Eugene Onegin is not customary to evaluate. In the words of the same Bulgarin, he was written by Pushkin"s poems. This is enough. " But illustrators still delight readers with various artistic interpretations of the novel in verses. One of the first cycles of drawings to "Eugene Onegin" was created by Pavel Sokolov, whom contemporaries called the "Creator of Tatyana". And after half a century, a magnificent publication of one of the best Russian printing houses-"Partnerships R. Golika and A. Wilborg", supplier of the imperial court, with the watercolors of Elena Samokish-Sudkovskaya, enjoyed very popular