![]() ![]() When Lensky brings Onegin to Tatyana's name-day party, Onegin finds his dislike of parties stirred up and thereby decides to avenge himself upon Lensky. Onegin, however, meets her in her garden to deliver a cool and didactic speech rejecting her love and asking her to mature to the realities of love, plunging Tatyana into despair. ![]() Having fallen in love with Onegin, Tatyana writes him an artless and utterly honest letter confessing her love and begging for his. While the charming and girlish Olga occupies Lensky, Tatyana is far more nuanced, a melancholic reader of romance novels and a dreamy wanderer in the moonlight. When Lensky brings Onegin on one of his visits to their neighbors the Larins in order to show Olga, his love, to his friend, Onegin meets the elder Larin sister, Tatyana. There he meets the passionate young poet Vladimir Lensky, and despite the differences between the two, the cold, world-weary Onegin and the fiery, vivacious Lensky become fast friends. ![]() Though his outstanding wit and charm allow him to navigate and manipulate his way through high society with ease, Onegin becomes jaded with the artificiality of his life and, when his uncle dies, he leaves for the countryside to live at the estate he has inherited. Petersburg spending his night at parties, ballets, and balls. Readers are introduced to the young rakish aristocrat Eugene Onegin as he flies through the streets of St. ![]()
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