Eugene Onegin

The novel by A. S. Pushkin "Eugene Onegin" is given in the illustrations of the famous painter of the 20th century Lydia Tymoshenko. The main Pushkin work was the only book that Tymoshenko turned to as an illustrator. It was an experiment (from which, by the way, many colleagues dissuaded her), who completely captured the artist ... for twenty years. As a result, she created two different series of illustrations: one - oil, in the grisail technique, at the beginning of the post -war period (published in this publication), the second - in the 1960s, in color lithography. And to this day of the work of Lydia Tymoshenko are considered the best embodiment of the images described in the novel.
According to the famous art historian L. A. Chetidaev, who achieved along with the colleagues of the publication of Eugene Onegin, formed by Griziles L. Tymoshenko, the artist approached the great creation of Pushkin "very psychologically aggravated and very dramatically". Tymoshenko’s illustrations help to perceive the novel as a very sad story about the tragedy of loneliness, about the history of an unforgivable mistake that destroyed the fate of both main characters, about the involuntary and woeful discord of two wonderful and significant people in an alien to both of them around the surrounding historical environment ...
Tymoshenko got an independent picturesque poem, which largely complements Pushkin’s novel. Judging by the diary records, by correspondence with friends and their memoirs published in this publication, it was to create the "Encyclopedia of Russian Life in Painting" that the artist in her "Onegin" sought