Evgenii Onegin / Евгений Онегин

In every culture there are works which express the spirit, the soul of its people; in Russian culture the novel in verse, Evgenii Onegin, by the great Russian poet Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, is such a phenomenon. It is the most important work in verse in Russian literature. Embracing the events of the first quarter of the 19th century, it is a veritable encyclopaedia of Russian life.