Onegin

Onegin Pushkin’s Evgenii Onegin may be a great love story, but it is also a book that gives an insight to the Russian nobilities’ lives, their differences, and their seclusion from the real world. The movie shows life for the nobles in the early 19th century was very simple. The nobles lived in their own little world consisting of social gatherings between the same people. The nobles had everything served to them on a silver platter, and where ignorant of the harsh realities facing the average Russian citizen. Evgenii Onegin is one of these nobles, but what makes him different, is that he took all that was given to him for granted and never seemed to be satisfied. Evgenii Onegin is a rich noble who lives in St. Petersburg. He lives a luxurious lifestyle and spends most of his time drinking and socializing with friends. For pleasure, he pays courtesans but slowly his funds start to run low and he questions whether he can continue this lifestyle. Soon enough, his uncle becomes ill, so Onegin travels to the countryside to be with him during his dying days. His uncle dies and Onegin inherits his fortune, which consists of vast amounts of land, onegin, nobles, tatiana, less, lensky, country, love, russian, noble, very, sophisticated, simple, lifestyle, city, time, people, lives, between, uncle, st, spends, social, seems, really, petersburg, onegin’s, one, olga, new, much, movie, life, friends, fact, different, differences