Soviet and Russian literary scholar and critic Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman (1922–1993) became an academic award laureate named after A. S. Pushkin for a reason. He was always attentive to details and deftly noticed meanings hidden between the lines of literary masterpieces. Exploring the features of the verse novel “Eugene Onegin,” he focuses on small things that often escape the attention of modern readers. He explains archaic words, highlights archetypes of literary characters, builds a chronology of events, and points out folkloric motifs. His commentaries make it possible not only to look at a work from another angle, but also to see the grandeur of the novel and its cultural significance. The book also includes a biography of Alexander Pushkin.