Eugene Onegin is a novel in a verse written by Alexander Pushkin. It was completed in 1832. It consists of 8 chapters.
The four main characters areEugene Onegin, Vladimir Lensky, Tatyana Larina and Olga Larina.
Eugene Onegin a Russian dandy who is bored with life, moves to a country mansion from his uncle who is in Moscow. When he moves to the country, he becomes friends with the minor poet Vladimir Lensky. One day, Lensky takes Onegin to a dinner with the family of his fiancee Olga Larina. At that meeting, Olga's bookish and countrified sister, Tatyana, falls in love with Onegin. That night Tatyana writes a letter to Onegin professing her love and sends it to him. That time in Russia was inappropriate when young unmarried woman takes initiative. Instead to her expectations, Onegin doesn't reply by letter, he decides that he's going to talk to her directly and reject her advances in a speech.
Later, Lensky invites Onegin to Tatyana's nameday celebration, promising a small celebration with just Tatyana, her sister and parents. When Onegin arrives he finds instead a grandiose ball, that reminds him of world he was fed up with . To exact revenge on Lensky, Onegin starts to flirt and dance with Olga. Lensky leaves the ball and in the morning calls Onegin to fight a duel. At the duel Onegin kills Lensky and flees.
Tatyana visits Onegin's mansion where she reads through his books and the notes in the margines and through this comes to believe that Onegin's character is a collage of literary heroes and so there no "real Onegin". Later, Tatyana is taken to Moscow where she is introduced to society. In new environment Tatyana matures to such an extent that when Onegin later meets her in St. Petersburg, he doesn't recognize her. When he realises who she is, he tries to get her attention, although she is now married. He writes a letter to her, but receives no reply. Now when Onegin manages to see Tatyana, she admits the fact that she still loves him while professing absolute loyalty to her husband.
In the end she gives him the speech similar to what he gave her before, demonstrating her emotional and moral superiority to Onegin.
The main theme of the book is the relationship between fiction and real life. Tatyana reads romantic novels, while her mom tells her that that's not the real life. He wrote this book to show people how difficult is to live between fiction and real life, because at that time all girls where obsessed with French poetry.
