Sometimes in order to understand a work, you need to look at it from a different angle, get acquainted with the opinions of critics, re-read a couple of times ... Often there simply is not enough time for this. The Literaguru team perfectly understands this, and in order to make it easier for readers to understand AS Evgeny Onegin Pushkin, we have compiled a brief retelling of the novel in verse.
Chapter first. A young man of twenty-four, Eugene Onegin, from Petersburg goes to a dying rich uncle and thinks about how bored he is. The author describes Eugene as a smart boy who received a good home education. Our hero is dressed and tonsured in the latest fashion, easily finds a common language with everyone, and in society they speak of him as an intelligent and sweet person. He is often invited to balls and holidays. Onegin understands that his life is "monotonous and motley." His feelings had cooled, "he was bored with light noise." Onegin falls into a spleen. He receives news of the death of his uncle, and now we are back at the beginning of the novel, to where we started. Eugene goes to the village, where the first two days “seemed new to him,” but he soon got bored again.
Chapter Two Onegin meets a new landowner, Vladimir Lensky, who came from Germany. The author describes him as follows: “Handsome, in full bloom of years; Kant's fan and poet. " Despite the obvious differences in characters, “They converged. Wave and stone, Poems and prose, ice and flame. " Onegin amuses the childish naivete of the eighteen-year-old Lensky, but Eugene is in no hurry to lower him to the ground. They often argue and reflect on different things. Lensky tells Onegin about his love for Olga Larina. The author writes about her older sister, Tatyana, who was very different from her younger character. Not a beauty, quiet and timid, "She is in her own family // She seemed a stranger girl." This chapter also tells the story of the girls' mother, who in her youth was in love with a sergeant guard, dandy and player, but her parents married her to another. At first she was sad, but later got used to her husband. The father of the girls lived a quiet life and died.
Chapter Three Lensky increasingly visits the Larins; Onegin once asks if he can see a friend's beloved, and he invites him with him. Onegin says that he would have liked Tatyana more. The girl understands that she fell in love with Eugene, dreams of him. Once, on a sleepless night, Tatyana talks with her nanny about love, and she tells her about her fate: that she was married at 13, so that she does not know exactly what love is. Tatyana writes Onegin a letter of declaration of love. In the morning she asks the nanny to send a letter to her lover and remains waiting for an answer. Two days from Onegin there is no news; finally he arrives. Tatiana ran into the garden, afraid of what would happen next, but still calmed down and went to Eugene, standing in the alley "like a formidable shadow."
Chapter Four Eugene is touched by the sincerity of the girl, but, long since disappointed in the relationship, he does not want love, because he is "not created for bliss." He ends his speech with the admonition: “Learn to rule yourself; Not everyone, like me, will understand; Inexperience leads to trouble. ” After this meeting, the girl becomes even sadder than before. Relations of Lensky and Olga, on the contrary, are developing.
Onegin lives as a hermit; once, Lensky came to him with the news of his imminent wedding. He also gives Onegin an invitation to Tatyana's name day.
Chapter Five Epiphany nights are coming. Tatiana believes in signs and fortune-telling, so she goes to bed with a mirror under her pillow. She has a terrible dream, where there was a bear, Onegin, who was his master, and Lensky with Olga. The latter violate the privacy of Eugene and Tatiana, for which Onegin kills Lensky with a long knife. Having woken up, Tatiana frantically tries to decipher the dream with the help of the book of Martyn Zadeka.
A lot of people gathered at the name day. Onegin was seated opposite Tatyana. Seeing her excitement, Onegin is angry and decides to take revenge on Lensky, who for some reason called him for a holiday. Eugene invites only Olga to dance and does not leave her even during breaks. Lensky “flares up in indignation with jealousy” and tries to invite the bride to the dance, which he hears a refusal, because she already promised to dance with Onegin. Vladimir leaves the name day, thinking that only a duel can fix the current situation.
Chapter Six In the morning, Onegin receives a note from Lensky with a challenge to a duel. He agrees to her, although he realizes that he is entirely to blame for the situation and it was so foolish to joke with another.
Before the duel, Lensky arrives at the Larin’s house, thinking of embarrassing Olga with his appearance, but she joyfully met him. This dispelled his jealousy, but it was too late to cancel the duel.
Eugene overslept, so Lensky had to wait for him. The second was Vladimir Zaretsky, the second onegin made Guillot. At the command of Zaretsky, the young men agreed, the duel began. Eugene managed to shoot first, Lensky instantly dies. Eugene in horror understands what he did.
Chapter Seven. Olga did not grieve over the groom for long; soon she fell in love with Lancer, married him and left home. Tatiana still has not forgotten Onegin. Once, while walking, she accidentally went to his house, where she was friendly greeted by a yard family and let her into the house. Tatyana often began to visit Onegin’s house, read his books and understand what kind of person Onegin was from the marginal notes.
In the Larins' house, conversations begin that Tatyana should get married. They decide to take her to the "brides' fair" in Moscow. The girl is not happy about this trip, she is bored and uninteresting in the bustling Moscow, she recalls the village. Meanwhile, the general does not look away from her.
Chapter Eight. Two years have passed. Onegin at a social event. He traveled, but he was tired of it. At evening, a lady appears with the general, who attracts everyone's attention. A woman looks "quiet" and "modest." In it, Onegin recognizes Tatyana. From a friend of the prince, he seeks confirmation of this; Onegin is amazed at how the girl who was once in love with him has changed.
In the morning Onegin bring a letter from the prince, the wife of Tatiana. Onegin eagerly goes on a visit, but the “majestic” Tatyana does not notice him, so Eugene becomes uneasy, and he leaves.
Eugene writes Tatyana a letter in which she declares her love. The answer does not come to him. The second and third letters also remain unanswered. Eugene again blues.
The time has passed. One spring day, Eugene without invitation comes to Tatyana and finds her crying over his letter. Tatyana reminds him of the very “sermon” in which Onegin refused Tatyana's reciprocal feelings, and begins to preach herself. She believes that she has interested Eugene in her new position, and says goodbye to the following words: “I love you (why dissemble?), But I am given to another; I will be faithful to him for a century. ” She leaves, Onegin remains face to face with his thoughts.
