Petersburg, where he is shocked to meet a now-married and eminently mature Tatyana. Later, Onegin returns from his travels and attends a ball at St. In order to find her a mate, Tatyana's mother brings her to Moscow. Meanwhile, Tatyana visits his house where she reads through his Byronic novels and discovers that the man she loves is an empty character based on the books he has read. With the bright young life of the poet snuffed out, Onegin departs on a long journey, chased by his guilt. Their battle almost driven on by the dueling-hawk Zaretsky, Onegin and Lensky draw pistols, and Lensky is killed. Onegin, however, wakes up late and arrives tardily. Realizing that she still loves him, he writes a poem at night inspired by her, and then wakes at dawn the next day for the duel. Lensky spends the day with a clouded mind with Olga.
The following morning Onegin receives a challenge to a duel from Lensky and accepts. He steals Olga away from Lensky for all of the dances and, employing his experienced charm, makes her blush, which sends Lensky home in a furor. 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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