Eugene Onegin

Also known as Evgeny Onegin

novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin

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"Eugene Onegin" is a novel written in verse by Alexander Pushkin that tells the story of a disillusioned aristocrat and his interactions with the people around him. It is considered an important work of Russian literature and helped establish the novel in verse as a significant literary form.

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Author: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin
First published: 1995
Editions: 19

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Instance of: literary work
Author: Alexander Pushkin
Genre: verse novel
Country of origin: Russia
Dedicated to: Pyotr Pletnyov
Image: Eugene Onegin book edition.jpg

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Commons category: Eugene Onegin
title: Евгеній Онѣгинъ
language of work or name: Russian
publication date: 1825-00-00
inception: 1823-00-00
copyright status: public domain
subtitle: Романъ въ стихахъ
set in period: 19th century
number of parts of this work: 8
form of creative work: novel
first line: Не мысля гордый свет забавить
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
time period: Romanticism
derivative work: Eugene Onegin
illustrator: Ilya Repin
translator: Vladimir Nabokov

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Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse (Russian: Евгений Онегин, роман в стихах, romanized: Yevgeniy Onegin, roman v stikhakh, pre-reform Russian: Евгеній Онѣгинъ, романъ въ стихахъ, [jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj ɐˈnʲeɡʲɪn]) is a novel in verse written by Alexander Pushkin. Onegin is considered a classic of Russian literature, and its eponymous protagonist has served as the model for a number of Russian literary heroes (so-called superfluous men). It was published in a serial form between 1825 and 1832. The first complete edition was published in 1833, and the currently accepted version is based on the 1837 publication.

Almost the entire work is made up of 389 fourteen-line stanzas (5,446 lines in all) of iambic tetrameter with the unusual rhyme scheme AbAbCCddEffEgg, where the uppercase letters represent feminine rhymes while the lowercase letters represent masculine rhymes. This original structure is known as the "Onegin stanza" or "Pushkin sonnet".

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