The most favorite piece Pushkin’s novel “Eugene Onegin,” on which he worked for many years, Belinsky called “an encyclopedia of Russian life.” According to the poet, the novel was the fruit of “a mind of cold observations and a heart of sorrowful notes”; it, indeed, gives a picture of all layers of Russian society.

In Pushkin’s work, the novel “Eugene Onegin” occupies a central place. This is the biggest piece of art A.S. Pushkin. It is rich in content, one of the most popular works of the poet, which

It had the most powerful influence on the fate of all Russian literature.

Main actor In the novel, the young landowner Evgeny Onegin is a man with a very complex and contradictory character. It is not so easy to establish how the author himself feels about him. The tone of Pushkin's story about him is ironic almost until the very end of the novel. Maybe because the author also talks about himself. The poet does not hide his shortcomings and does not try to justify them. Already in the epigraph to the novel, Pushkin expresses doubt about the justice of the feeling of superiority with which Onegin treated those around him. And at the same time, we learn in the first chapter that Pushkin himself became friends with Onegin, that the poet “liked his features,” that he spent nights with Onegin on the Neva embankment, remembering his youth, his former love, listening to the singing of the rowers of a boat floating along the river ... Having cited in the eighth chapter sharply unkind reviews of Onegin from some secular acquaintance of his, the poet decisively stands up for his hero, emphasizes his ardent and careless soul, his intelligence and almost identifies him with himself when he says:

“But it’s sad to think that it’s in vain

youth was given to us,

that they cheated on her all the time,

that she deceived us...”

The images of the main character and the author in the novel create lyrical digressions. If you read more carefully, you can see that there is more than one main character, and two: Onegin and Pushkin. We learn almost as much about the author as we do about Eugene Onegin. They are similar in many ways; it is not for nothing that Pushkin immediately said about Evgeniy that he is “my good friend.” Pushkin writes about himself and Onegin:

We both knew the game of passion;

Life tormented both of us;

The heat died down in both hearts...

The author, like the hero, tired of the bustle, cannot help but despise people of the world in his soul, tormented by memories of his bright, carefree youth. Pushkin likes Onegin’s “sharp, chilled mind”, his dissatisfaction with himself. The author and his hero are people of the same generation and approximately the same type of upbringing: both had French tutors, both spent their youth in St. Petersburg society, they have common acquaintances and friends. Even their parents have similarities: Pushkin’s father, like Onegin’s father, “lived in debt...”. Summarizing, Pushkin writes:

“We all learned a little,

something and somehow

but education, thank God,

It’s no wonder to shine here.”

The poet also notes his difference from Onegin. Onegin does not understand nature, but the author dreams of a quiet, quiet life in a piece of paradise where he could enjoy nature. Pushkin knows how to rejoice in what Onegin is so bored and disgusted with. For Onegin, love is “the science of tender passion”; Pushkin has a different attitude towards women; real passion and love are available to him. The world of Onegin and Pushkin is a world of social dinners, luxurious entertainment, and balls. The author sharply criticizes the St. Petersburg high society. It is not easy for Pushkin to live, much more difficult than for Onegin. Onegin is disappointed in life, he has no friends, no creativity, no love, no joy, Pushkin has all this, but no freedom - he is expelled from St. Petersburg, he does not belong to himself. Onegin doesn’t need anything, and that’s his tragedy.

No matter how different Pushkin and Onegin are, they are united by dissatisfaction with the way Russian reality is structured. The smart, mocking poet was a real citizen, a man who was not indifferent to the fate of his country. Pushkin dreamed of making Onegin a Decembrist, and this reflected all his respect for his hero.

Despite these obvious similarities, there is also a noticeable difference between them. The difference between them is that Pushkin is a poet, and Onegin “could not distinguish an iambic from a trochee.” Even “the village where Eugene was bored...” Pushkin really likes, he says that “the village was a lovely corner...”. Onegin “in the wilderness, everything is boring in the village,” and the author says:

I was born for a peaceful life,

For village silence...

With this comparison, Pushkin is still trying to “separate” himself from Onegin. Throughout the novel, the author compares his views and Onegin's. Yes, in the work the author and his hero are friends, but a very large gulf separates them. We see how Pushkin, with his hot, life-loving nature, wholeheartedly denies the coldness and indifference of Onegin. The author understands that secular society infected Onegin with such coldness, but Pushkin also comes from the same environment, but has his spirit weakened, has his heart cooled?

The contrast of characters manifests itself not only in attitude towards life, but also in attitude towards people. For Pushkin, Tatyana is a sweet, “true ideal,” and Onegin considers her nothing more than a “naive girl.” In response to her reverent declaration of love, Tatyana hears from the “callous” Onegin only a sermon and nothing else. Pushkin sympathizes with Tatyana, he writes:

…I love so much

My dear Tatiana!

It is because of her that Pushkin comes into conflict with public opinion. The author reveals to us in one of the lyrical digressions his ideal of a woman. Pushkin’s woman “is gifted from heaven with a rebellious imagination, a lively mind and will, a wayward head, and a fiery and tender heart.” The poet devoted many lyrical digressions to the cultural life of Russia.

Onegin's character, it must be kept in mind, does not remain unchanged; it changes under the influence of the events described by Pushkin in the novel. Significant changes take place in him, and Onegin is no longer the same as we see him in six chapters, in the eighth and final chapter of the novel. IN last years Throughout the life of the poet himself, numerous changes also occurred in his character. Throughout the entire novel, the author is close to Onegin: he experiences what is happening together with him, and sometimes tries to condemn or understand him. They are like one whole. While Pushkin was writing the novel “Eugene Onegin,” he became very accustomed to it:

First Onegin's language

I was embarrassed; but I'm used to it -

To his caustic argument,

And as a joke, with bile in half,

And the anger of gloomy epigrams.

At the end of the novel, Pushkin again turns his gaze to those whom he loved in his youth and to whom he remained faithful in heart throughout his short but fruitful life. Therefore, having finished the novel, the poet felt a sense of pride from the accomplished literary feat - the creation of the first Russian realistic novel. But, missing his usual, long-term occupation and feeling lonely without it, the poet was sad, like a day laborer who finished his job and did not receive a new one. After all, Pushkin spent whole days and nights in this difficult and joyful work, without leaving home.

Studying the works of A.S. Pushkin, we are increasingly imbued with respect for his literary activity. Constant interest in his works makes us dive deeper and deeper into the world of his creations. Everything that belongs to Pushkin’s pen is capacious, beautiful, impressive. His immortal works will be studied by more than one generation of readers.

“Eugene Onegin” is a novel to which Pushkin devoted eight long years. The value of this novel for our cultural and spiritual life is undeniable. The novel was written according to new canons - it is a novel in verse. The novel “Eugene Onegin” is a philosophical, historical novel.

Onegin and Lensky are the two central figures of the novel. In order to understand what these heroes are, to understand the concept of the personality of these people, to penetrate deeper into author's intention, let us give their comparative characteristics.

Comparative characteristics of the heroes are given according to the following criteria:
upbringing,
education,
character,
ideals,
attitude towards poetry
attitude towards love,
attitude to life.

Upbringing

Eugene Onegin. Onegin, by right of birth, belongs to noble family. Under the leadership of a French tutor, Onegin, “a child of fun and luxury,” was brought up in the spirit of aristocracy, far from truly Russian national foundations.

“At first Madame followed him,
Then Monsieur replaced her...
Lightly scolded for pranks
And he took me for walks in the Summer Garden.”

Vladimir Lensky. A humanly attractive character. Handsome, “shoulder-length black curls,” rich, youthfully enthusiastic and ardent. The author is silent on what ideals Lensky was brought up on.

Education

Eugene Onegin
“We all learned a little, something and somehow,” A.S. Pushkin wisely notes. Onegin was taught in this way “so that the child would not be exhausted.”

Prince P.A. Vyazemsky, a friend of A.S. Pushkin, wrote at one time that, according to the canons of that time, insufficiently deep knowledge of the Russian language was allowed, but ignorance of French was not allowed.

“He’s completely French.”
He could express himself and wrote"

What other knowledge did Evgeniy shine with? He was a little familiar with classical literature, Roman, Greek. He was interested in history (“from Romulus to the present day”). He had an idea of ​​the social sciences (“he knew how to judge how the state gets rich and how it lives”), political economy (“but he read Adam Smith”).

“A learned fellow, but a pedant:
He had a lucky talent
No coercion in conversation
Touch everything lightly
With the learned air of an expert.”

In general, Onegin can be characterized as an intelligent person, critical of reality, able to weigh the pros and cons.

Vladimir Lensky
"Half-Russian" student at the University of Göttingen. Quite smart, passionate about philosophy (“fan of Kant”) and poetry.

"He's from foggy Germany
He brought the fruits of learning..."

Perhaps he had a bright future, but most likely

"...a poet
The ordinary one was waiting for his destiny.”

Ideals

Eugene Onegin. In order to understand Onegin’s ideals, one must understand the very concept of “ideal.” The ideal is what we strive for. What did Onegin strive for? Towards harmony. Which way did he go? Onegin's path is a struggle between the eternal (national) and the temporary (that which settled in the character of the hero thanks to society and the ideals of someone else's, introduced philosophy).

Vladimir Lensky. Lensky's ideal - eternal love and holy friendship to the grave.

Character

Eugene Onegin. Onegin's character is contradictory and complex, just as his time is complex and contradictory.

What is he like, Onegin?
Onegin is lazy (“which occupied his melancholy laziness all day”), proud, indifferent. He is a hypocrite and a flatterer, eager to slander and criticize. Likes to attract attention and philosophize. At the feast of life, Onegin is superfluous. He clearly stands out from the crowd around him and strives to seek the meaning of life. He's sick of hard work. Boredom, melancholy, loss of direction in life, skepticism are the main signs “ extra people", to which Onegin belongs.

Vladimir Lensky. Lensky is the complete opposite of Onegin. There is nothing rebellious in Lensky's character.

What is he like, Lensky?
Enthusiastic, freedom-loving, dreamy. He is a romantic, a sincere person, with a pure soul, not spoiled by the light, direct, honest. But Lensky is not ideal. The meaning of life is a mystery to him.

“The purpose of our life is for him
Was a tempting mystery..."

Lensky and Onegin are different. But at the same time, they are similar: both do not have a worthwhile business, reliable prospects, they lack fortitude.

Attitude to poetry

Eugene Onegin.“Yawning, he took up the pen and wanted to write...” What literary material did Onegin decide to take up? It is unlikely that he intended to write poetry. “He could not distinguish iambic from trochee, No matter how we fought, to distinguish...” At the same time, it cannot be said that Onegin was averse to poetry. He did not understand the true purpose of poetry, but he was engaged in poetry. He wrote epigrams. (An epigram is a small satirical poem ridiculing a person or social phenomenon).

"And make the ladies smile
Fire of unexpected epigrams"

Vladimir Lensky. Lensky's attitude towards poetry is the most favorable. Lensky is a poet, romantic, dreamer. And who is not a romantic at eighteen? Who doesn’t secretly write poetry or awaken the lyre?

Attitude towards love

Eugene Onegin.“Considered to be disabled in love, Onegin listened with an important look...” Onegin’s attitude towards love is skeptical, with a certain amount of irony and pragmatism.

Vladimir Lensky. Lensky is a singer of love.
“He sang love, obedient to love,
And his song was clear..."

Attitude to life

Eugene Onegin. Onegin's views on life: life is meaningless, empty. There is no worthy goal in life to strive for.

Vladimir Lensky. Romantics, with their ardent spirit and enthusiastic speeches, are alien to a deep view of life.

Conclusion

A.S. Pushkin is the great son of the Russian land. He was given the opportunity to open a new page in Russian literature.

Onegin and Lensky are antipodes. Onegin is a man in whom a good beginning lies dormant, but his superficial “ideals” lead to constant conflicts and internal disharmony.

Lensky is freedom-loving, dreamy and enthusiastic; he firmly believes in his ideals. But he is cut off from his native soil, he has no inner core.

Writers have always strived for a realistic depiction of Russian life; but for the time being these images lacked artistry and free creativity. Pushkin brought beauty, a powerful aesthetic principle to Russian literature; Artistically depicting Russian reality, he at the same time firmly took the position of deep realism.

A.S. Pushkin’s novel “Eugene Onegin” is a historical, philosophical work, it is a novel-life. The pictures of Russian society depicted in the novel are the most important material for the analysis of the era, characters, morals, and traditions.

"Eugene Onegin" is one of the most original novels in Russian literature. And Pushkin, of course, understood this. Before him, novels were written in prose, because the “prose” genre is more suitable for depicting the details of life, and for showing it in general. In the poetic genre it is different. When an author writes poetry, he involuntarily reveals his inner world, shows his “I,” and reflects life through the prism of his own ideas.

In the novel in verse “Eugene Onegin” Pushkin shows a picture of his era and does not separate it from himself. In the novel, fictional characters live, love, and suffer, but they are almost inseparable from the author. The story about their life is a diary of the author's soul.

Pushkin's innovative decision was the appearance in the novel of an unusual image, the image of the author. And the search for correlations between this image and the images of the heroes.

The novel is called "Eugene Onegin", it is natural to assume that one of the main characters of the novel is the character of the same name. Reading line by line, we understand that along with him, the author also plays a full role in the novel. The author is invisibly present where his heroes are. He is not a soulless verbal narrator; we can notice this both from the lyrical digressions and from the main storyline. The author constantly invades the narrative field, discusses various topics, creates a certain mood, and clarifies details. The author and I feel better; he is the link between the characters and us.

The author has a special relationship with Evgeny Onegin. The author is older than Onegin, he “has not sinned for a long time.” They are somewhat similar. Both are of the nobility. Both are fluent in French. Reading circle of Onegin - Byron, Methurin. But Pushkin himself read the same thing!

Byron's work "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" is Onegin's favorite book. Pushkin and his contemporaries also read to her. Childe-Harold's melancholy, despondency, and disappointment were even “copied” by some representatives high society; the mask of a bored man was popular.

As for Maturin, both Onegin and Pushkin were interested in his novel “Melmoth the Wanderer”.

At this stage, we will make a lyrical digression and say that in the novel we do not identify the author with Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. Pushkin and the author (the speech narrator in the novel) are not the same person. Although their biographies partly coincide.

The writer A. Tarkhov notes that the existence of two “I” (a certain author and the real poet Pushkin) is one of the main intrigues (contradictions) of the “free novel” “Eugene Onegin”.

Let's return to our heroes. How does the author feel about Eugene Onegin? With irony, but one cannot help but notice that with undisguised sympathy too. Although…

“I'm always glad to notice the difference
Between Onegin and me"

The similarities between the characters are present in their upbringing and education. The author notes with irony:

"We all learned a little bit
Something and somehow
So upbringing, thank God,
It’s no wonder for us to shine.”

In what other ways are Onegin and the author similar and in what ways different?

They both know the banks of the Neva. Onegin tried to take up the pen, “but he was sick of persistent work,” the author is not like that. He belongs to the “perky guild” of writers.

For Onegin, theater and ballet are not temples of art where beauty and emotions are born, they are a place for flirting, romance, and sighs.

“The theater is an evil legislator,
Fickle Adorer
Charming actresses
Honorary citizen of the scenes."

“I was embittered, he was sullen;
We both knew the game of passion;
Life tormented both of us;
The heat died down in both hearts;
Anger awaited both
Blind Fortune and People
In the very morning of our days."

The difference between the types can also be traced in the fact that Onegin noticed “that in the village there is the same boredom,” and the author “was born ... for village silence.”

The image of Onegin in the novel is not static, it undergoes changes. It is at a time when Onegin experiences true disappointment that the author becomes close to his “good friend” Onegin, tries to develop in him creativity, teach to write poetry. But this attempt was not crowned with success, because “he could not distinguish iambic from trochee, no matter how hard we fought.”

As the plot develops, we see that the worldview of the author and Onegin changes. Onegin understood a lot, felt a lot. The author also became different. Onegin in the finale of the novel is more loyal and understandable; he is closer to the author.

How will Evgeniy’s future life turn out? I would like to hope that it is successful. Evgeniy has positive inclinations. The problem is that there is a gap between Onegin’s potential and the role that he has chosen for himself in society.

Conclusion

In the novel “Eugene Onegin” the same wonderful image of the “responding poet” appears. The author in the novel is not Pushkin, he is an independent hero, a full participant in events. The author and Onegin are similar in many ways. They think about life, are critical of many things, and are characterized by an intense search for a goal in life. They are taller than the crowd that surrounds them. But at the same time, they are different. The author treats Evgeniy ironically, but with obvious sympathy. The difference in the views of these two types was established in the first chapter. That is, the i's are dotted at the very beginning.

The author, whom Pushkin wisely made the hero of the novel, opens up with us and gives the necessary explanations. Thanks to the author, we better understand the image of Onegin, the images of other heroes of the work, and we better understand the plot line of the novel.

Answer from Atmir F.C.D.M.[guru]
one gets the impression that the main character of the novel is not Onegin, but Pushkin himself. He is present everywhere: at the ball, and in the theater - ironically watching his hero, and in the village, and in the squalid living rooms of small nobles, and in the garden by the bench on which Tatyana remained sitting after the rebuke given to her by her loved one. . The heroes of the novel are surrounded by Pushkin’s friends: either Chaadaev will rush by, then Vyazemsky’s glasses will sparkle, then the sound of the sea will be heard at the feet of the young Mashenka Raevskaya - the future princess Volkonskaya, then in the unpublished tenth chapter Yakushkin’s shadow will flash with a dark threat... And everywhere from behind you can see the smile of Alexander Pushkin himself. For the poet, the novel was, in his words, the fruit of “a mind of cold observations and a heart of sorrowful observations.”
We learn almost as much about the author as we do about Eugene Onegin. They are similar in many ways; it is not for nothing that Pushkin immediately said about Evgeniy that he is “my good friend.” Pushkin writes about himself and Onegin:
We both knew the passion game:
Life tormented both of us;
The heat died down in both hearts...
The author, like his hero, tired of the bustle, cannot help but despise people of the world in his soul, tormented by memories of his youth, bright and carefree. Pushkin likes Onegin’s “sharp, chilled” mind, his dissatisfaction with himself and the anger of his gloomy epigrams.
The poet inevitably notes his difference from Onegin. About Onegin he writes that “no matter how hard we fought, he could not distinguish iambic from trochee.” Pushkin, unlike Onegin, takes poetry seriously, calling it a “high passion.” Onegin does not understand nature, but the author dreams of a quiet, calm life in a paradise where he could enjoy nature. Pushkin writes: “The village where Onegin was bored was a charming corner.” Pushkin and Onegin, for example, perceive theater differently. For Pushkin, the St. Petersburg theater is a magical land that he dreams of in exile. Onegin “enters, walks between the chairs along the legs, the double lorgnette, squinting, points at the boxes of unfamiliar ladies,” and then, barely glancing at the stage, with an absent-minded look, “turned away and yawned.” Pushkin knows how to rejoice in what Onegin is so bored and disgusted with.
For Onegin, love is “the science of tender passion”; Pushkin has a different attitude towards women; real passion and love are available to him. The world of Onegin and Pushkin is a world of social dinners, luxurious entertainment, drawing rooms, balls, this is the world of high-ranking persons, this is the world of high society, which is far from easy to get into. Reading the novel, we gradually understand Pushkin’s attitude towards secular society and the noble class to which he himself belongs by birth.
It is not easy for Pushkin to live, much more difficult than for Onegin. Onegin is disappointed in life, he has no friends, no creativity, no love, no joy, Pushkin has all this, but no freedom - he is expelled from St. Petersburg, he does not belong to himself. Onegin is free, but why does he need freedom? He languishes both with her and without her, he is unhappy because he does not know how to live the life that Pushkin lives. Onegin doesn’t need anything, and that’s his tragedy. If Pushkin enjoys nature, then Onegin is not given this, because he clearly sees that “boredom is the same in the village”
Finishing the novel, Pushkin again turns his gaze to those whom he loved in his youth, to whom he remained faithful in heart. No matter how different Pushkin and Onegin may be, they are from the same camp; they are united by dissatisfaction with the way Russian reality works. The smart, mocking poet was a real citizen, a man who was not indifferent to the fate of his country. Many of Pushkin's friends believed that he transferred his features to Lensky and portrayed himself in him. But in lyrical digressions Pushkin shows an ironic attitude towards Lensky. He writes about him: “He would have changed in many ways, would have parted with the muses, gotten married in the village, happy and horned, would have worn a quilted robe.” Pushkin dreamed of making Onegin a Decembrist, and this reflected all his respect for his hero

In the novel “Eugene Onegin”, next to the main character, the author depicts other characters who help to better understand the character of Eugene Onegin. Among such heroes, first of all, Vladimir Lensky should be named.

According to Pushkin himself, these two people are absolutely opposite: “ice and fire,” as the author writes about them. And yet they become inseparable friends, although Pushkin notes that they become such because there is “nothing to do.”

Let's try to compare Onegin and Lensky. Are they that different from each other?

Why did they get together? It is better to present the comparison of heroes in the form of a table:

Eugene Onegin	Vladimir Lensky
Education and upbringing
Traditional noble upbringing and education - in childhood he is looked after by a mamzel, then by a monsieur, then he receives a good education. Pushkin writes: “We all learned a little something and somehow,” but the poet, as we know, received an excellent education at the elite Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum.	Studied in Germany. The author does not say anything about who raised him at an earlier age. The result of such education is a romantic worldview; it is no coincidence that Lensky is a poet.
State of mind, attitude to human values
Onegin feels tired of life, disappointed in it, for him there are no values ​​- he does not value love, friendship, or rather, does not believe in the sincerity and strength of these feelings. >No: his feelings cooled down early He was tired of the noise of the light. And then the author “makes a ‘diagnosis’ of his hero’s condition - in short: the Russian melancholy has taken possession of him little by little...”	Having returned to his homeland, Lensky expects happiness and miracles from life - therefore his soul and heart are open to love, friendship and creativity: The purpose of our life is for him Was a tempting mystery He puzzled over her And he suspected miracles.

Eugene Onegin	Vladimir Lensky
Life in the village, relationships with neighbors
Arriving in the village, Onegin is looking for an application to his strengths, a way out of his aimless existence - he is trying to replace corvée with an “easy quitrent”, and strives to find people close to him in outlook and spirit. But not finding anyone, Onegin himself separated himself with a sharp line from the surrounding landowners. And they, in turn, considered him an “eccentric,” a “farmazon,” and “they stopped their friendship with him.” Soon boredom and disappointment take hold of him again.	Lensky is distinguished by an enthusiastic and dreamy attitude towards life, spiritual simplicity and naivety. He had not yet had time to fade “from the cold depravity of the world,” he “was an ignoramus at heart.”
Idea of ​​purpose and meaning of life
Doesn't believe in any lofty goal.	I am sure that there is some higher purpose in life, he just doesn’t know it yet.
Poetic creativity and the attitude of heroes towards it
Onegin “could not... distinguish iambic from trochee...,” had neither the ability to compose nor the desire to read poetry; Lensky, like A.S. Pushkin, treats Lensky’s works with slight irony.	Lensky is a poet. He wandered the world with a lyre Under the skies of Schiller and Goethe With their poetic fire, the Soul ignited in him. Lensky is inspired by the work of German romantic poets and also considers himself a romantic. In some ways he is similar to Pushkin’s friend Kuchelbecker. Lensky's poems are sentimental, and their content is love, “separation and sadness, and something, and the foggy distance, and romantic roses...”
Love story
Onegin does not believe in the sincerity of female love. Tatyana Larina, upon first meeting, does not evoke any feelings in Onegin’s soul, except perhaps pity and sympathy. Only after several years has passed, the changed Onegin understands what happiness he gave up by rejecting Tatyana’s love. Onegin's life has no meaning, since there was no place for love in it.	Lensky, as a romantic poet, falls in love with Olga. For him, the ideal of female beauty, fidelity - everything is in her. He not only loves her, he is passionately jealous of Olga for Onegin. He suspects her of treason, but as soon as Onegin leaves the evening dedicated to Tatiana’s name day, Olga again sincerely shows her affection and love for Lensky.

Friendship

With all the differences in characters, temperaments and psychological types between Onegin and Lensky, one cannot help but notice whole line similarities:

They are opposed to the nobility, both in the city and in the countryside;

They strive to find the meaning of life, not limited to the “joys” of the circle of secular youth;

Broad intellectual interests - history, philosophy, moral issues, and reading literary works.

Duel

The duel becomes a particularly tragic page in the relationship between Onegin and Lensky. Both heroes perfectly understand the meaninglessness and uselessness of this fight, but neither was able to step over the convention - public opinion. It was the fear of judgment from others that forced the two friends to stand at the barrier and aim the muzzle of a gun at the chest of their recent friend.

Onegin becomes a murderer, although according to the rules he does not commit murder, but only defends his honor. And Lensky goes to a duel in order to punish universal evil, which at that moment, in his opinion, was concentrated in Onegin.

After the duel, Onegin leaves, he goes to travel around Russia. He is no longer able to remain in a society whose laws force him to commit acts that are contrary to his conscience. It can be assumed that it was this duel that became the starting point from which serious changes in Onegin’s character began.

Tatyana Larina

The novel is named after Eugene Onegin, but in the text of the novel there is another heroine who can fully be called the main one - this is Tatyana. This is Pushkin's favorite heroine. The author does not hide his sympathy: “forgive me... I love my dear Tatyana so much...”, and, on the contrary, at every opportunity he emphasizes his affection for the heroine.

This is how you can imagine the heroine:
What distinguishes Tatyana from representatives of her circle	Tatiana in comparison with Onegin
. She is not like all the secular girls. There is no coquetry, affectation, insincerity, or unnaturalness in it. . She prefers solitude to noisy games, does not like to play with dolls, she prefers to read books or listen to her nanny's stories about antiquity. She also amazingly feels and understands nature; this spiritual sensitivity makes Tatyana closer to the common people than to secular society. . The basis of Tatiana's world is folk culture. . Pushkin emphasizes the spiritual connection of a girl who grew up in a “village” with beliefs and folklore traditions. It is no coincidence that the novel included an episode in which Tatyana’s fortune-telling and dream are told. . There is a lot of intuitive and instinctive in Tatyana. . This is a discreet and deep, sad and pure, believing and faithful nature. Pushkin endowed his heroine with wealth inner world and spiritual purity: What is gifted from heaven With a rebellious imagination, Alive in mind and will, And wayward head, And with a fiery and tender heart... Believes in ideal happiness, in love, creates in his imagination under the influence of read French novels perfect image beloved.	Tatyana is somewhat similar to Onegin: . The desire for loneliness, the desire to understand oneself and understand life. . Intuition, insight, natural intelligence. . The author's good disposition towards both heroes.