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You might think that Tolstoy and Dostoevsky are the pinnacles of Russian literature, but it is actually Pushkin that is considered the true literary treasure of the motherland. He is the Russian Shakespeare and Byron wrapped into one. His most celebrated character Eugine Onegin is the Russian Mr. Darcy. Every student can recite at least several stanzas of Pushkin's famous opening for Ruslan and Ludmila. He weaves together the wild mysteries of folklore and extravagance of the court into unique w
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What a fantastic novel! I first fell in love with the film starring Ray Finnes and Liv Tyler, and did not realize that it was based on a Russian novel. The book was just as great as the movie: when the world-weary and cynical Eugene Onegin moves from St. Petersburg to the country estate he has inherited, he strikes up a friendship with his neighbor, the poet Vladimir Lansky. Onegin coldly rejects the romantic advances of Tatyana, but courts her sister, Olga - Lensky's fiancé, out of boredom. By
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