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Who is Eugene Onegin? A sensual swinger, a talented intellectual young man? Onegin was only eighteen years old when he appeared, but it seemed that only an old soul remained. He lives in a hurry and feels in a hurry. He is well-educated but does nothing. He cannot find his place in real life. He is empty, confused and wasting his time. He is cynical and despises the vulgar villagers around him who only know how to drink and raise dogs. Sometimes he also looks down on his naive poet friend Lensky. When Lensky tells his childish love story, Onegin, who thinks he is mature and worldly, sneers. He believes that Lensky will one day wake up and see clearly the meaningless nature of life. Like this generation of young people, Onegin had no interest in the worldly life of getting married and having children. As an aristocratic young man who grew up with Western-style enlightenment education, rationality and freedom were the fashionable trends pursued by his upper class society. He indifferently rejected the passionate and sincere confession of the country girl Tatyana, because in his view, marriage was just a meaningless commitment and endless bondage. In this way, he buried his love with his own hands, shot and killed his best friend without any explanation, and walked step by step towards the abyss of self-destruction. When Onegin once again met Tatyana, who understood him and still loved him, and rekindled the passion of his life, it seemed that it was too late... "Eugene Onegin" is considered the highest achievement of Pushkin's literature. This is a poetic novel based on the form of a sonnet, which combines the ups and downs of the novel's narrative with the lyricism of poetry. This erroneous love tragedy contains a melancholy understanding of youth, time, and life - happiness is most erratic when it is close at hand.