Evgeny Onegin (with comments by Yu.M. Lotman)

Eugene Onegin is the most famous and most significant work of A. S. Pushkin, the pinnacle of Russian poetry and the subject of numerous studies. Pushkin began the novel in May 1823, and finished only in the fall of 1831, when “Onegin’s letter to Tatyana” was written. In the fall of 1823, the poet informed his friends: I am now writing not a novel, but a novel in verses - a devilish difference ...
Entertaining, easy, based on a love story, transferred in the manner of a confidential conversation between the author with the reader - and at the same time a complete insoluble paradoxes and puzzles, Pushkin’s novel attracts new and new generations of readers.
This publication includes a commentary on the novel by the famous philologist Yu. M. Lotman. The scientist shows an internally complex, full of contradictions the structure of the novel “Eugene Onegin”, hiding behind the appearance and understandability of the Pushkin lines