Addressing fundamental themes such as the conflicts between art, reality, and social convention, "Eugene Onegin" was the founding text of modern Russian literatureWhen the Romantic and world-weary dandy Eugene Onegin moves from St. Petersburg to take up residence in the country estate he has inherited, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with his mild-mannered neighbor, the poet Vladimir Lensky. Coldly rejecting the amorous advances of Tatyana and cynically courting her sister OlgaLensky's fianceeOnegin finds himself dragged into a tragedy of his own doing. Marking a clean break from the...