Eugene Oneguine [Onegin]

Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin's 'Eugene Onegin' stands as a towering monument in Russian literature, a novel in verse that melds a stirring narrative with a sophisticated exploration of human passions and societal mores. As a Romance of Russian Life in Verse, the book deftly employs Pushkin's pioneering use of iambic tetrameter, a meter that would come to be known as the 'Onegin stanza.' This work ...