“Eugene Onegin” is the most famous and most significant work of A. S. Pushkin, the pinnacle of Russian poetry and the subject of numerous studies. Pushkin began the novel in May 1823, and finished it only in the fall of 1831, when “Onegin’s Letter to Tatyana” was written. In the autumn of 1823, the poet informed his friends: “I am now writing not a novel, but a novel in verse - a devilish difference...” Entertaining, light, based on a love story conveyed in the manner of a confidential conversation between the author and the reader - and at the same time full of insoluble paradoxes and mysteries , Pushkin's novel attracts new and new generations of readers. This edition includes a commentary on the novel by the famous philologist Yu. M. Lotman. The scientist shows the internally complex structure of the novel “Eugene Onegin”, full of contradictions, hiding behind the external lightness and clarity of Pushkin’s lines.