Alexander Pushkin / Yevgeny Onegin / Shoken

Alexander Pushkin / Yevgeny Onegin / Shoken

The masterpiece Yevgeny Onegin, written in the years 1823-1831, is considered the first Russian novel. When the novel was published, to explain its extraordinary popularity, one of the critics called it: "the encyclopedia of Russian life". Is there another encyclopedia so topical even after two hundred years?

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