I will forever forever forever grateful to you for inspiring me to read classics. I'm midway through A tale of two cities and I'm loving it, it's beautiful and I owe it to you and Emma. Without you guys it'll still be sitting on my shelf unreaf. I hope I get to finish Great Expectations soon (which I started four times and DNFd 4 times 😂). So thaaaaaank youuuu!❤❤❤

Pushkin is absolutely my favourite writer and poet. He was called a “sun of russian poesy” for a reason. And from what i’ve gathered during my school classes, he had a very interesting and charming personality. I once took an excursion in his house in Saint Petersburg, where he died. By the end of the excursion I was crying like a baby😅

One thing that's tricky to get your head around when reading translated works of verse, that contain rhymes etc, is the fact that the translator has to translate but then has to compromise the translation in order to make it rhyme. So it feels to me like there's another layer of being removed from the original. I find that a tricky thing.

Well, you've convinced me to read Eugene Onegin. It'll be my first full Pushkin book.

I loveee how it feels like Pushkin is directly talking to the reader, like he’s making jokes in-between the story and it makes the whole reading experience soo engaging. Reading Pushkin feels like he’s telling you a story and it just happens to accidentally rhyme, that’s how natural his rhymes are! I read it in its original Russian and it just hit straight to my heart, I’m so happy you’re reading and loving Russian literature, looking forward to more videos from this series🥰💕

you went from "i think i'm gonna love this" to " i love pushkin more than shakespeare" to "i feel like i did when i first read anna!" to "i think i like this more than anna..." and that makes super excited to read some pushkin!

Oohhh .. I am in love with Pushkin also after reading this book. How can I love so many Russians at the same time? Being scared, I stopped reading anything more from Pushkin. His writing melts my frozen heart. Just like Turgenev.

I have the same copy and I've been reading it every winter for like the past 2 years. It's just a very beautiful book with very musical language (if that makes sense) that really captures the essence of the book, plus I think reading it in winter brings out the atmosphere more. I'm so glad there are more people who are reading it😌💕

I thought that foreigners would never be able to understand and love "Onegin"))
This is a novel in verse and 99% of the charm of this work lies in the beauty of poetry and the Russian language. In Russian literary criticism, this novel is usually called "the encyclopedia of Russian life"))

Pushkin actually collected Russian folk stories and wrote his own fairytales on their basis. They’re all also pretty interesting and when you read them you can delve into Russian medieval history which I’m a big big fan of haha

I learned about Pushkin as I was reading Resurrection by Tolstoy and it is CarolynMarie made me read Eugene Onegin, I just completed my first read yesterday and during which time I have watched a great movie, a play production, also an opera by Tchaikovsky! This is not just a great classics book but also a great piece of art and it is a mini literary encyclopaedia hidden in those stanzas waiting for anyone one cares to find out more.  I personally find James E Falen version (one read by Steven Fry) is good to the ears, but Stanley Mitchell (the copy Carolyn read in this episode) copy had different approach for interpretation and certainly brings different feeling when I simply read it on paper. Your passion has give me the direction to find this book, thank you Carolyn.

As a Russian, I want to thank you for the inspiration you give to read Russian classics even to me as a native💜 I listened to the audiobook of Anna Karenina in July and am now reading and anna-tating it😄 I LOOOOOVE it.
I wish your vlogs had more spoilery parts! I'd love to hear your indepth thoughts about particular moments! Especially in your Anna Karenina vlog, which I am looking forward to most.

I read this in russian and you put it beautifully "it felt like magic". Glad the translation is beautiful as well!

I love when you get silly😊.

I wanted this video to never stop.... 👍 By the way, your pronouncination of Evgenii the russian way is PERFECT

Wow it’s so rare to see people who don’t speak russian appreciate Pushkin, it’s especially brilliant in russian because of the language especially, he single-handedly revolutionised the whole language and influence every other famous russian writer

Pushkin is a true gem of art of literature! When I read his poetry I always get emotional, just because his storytelling makes you feel like he is talking to an old friend.

I love this  vlog and review! I must say that I admire your self control! Once I started reading this novel, I felt so captivated that I could  not put it down until it was finished! Then I re read it for the details and that need for having the words again that you so well describe.
I must say that I also agree in your view of Pushkin (i also add Dostoevsky here but for different reasons) being at the same level, even higher, than Shakespeare. And I am too a fan of Shakespeare since I can remember.
One of the aspects I love on Eugene Onegin is the humour, SPOILER
that duel! The way in which such a serious, life or death  scenario, starts by the very anti climatic scene of Eugene oversleeping, just to evolve into a heartbreaking end.
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And, as a huge fan of the gothic genre, all the references and irony towarda the genre, and towards the romantic notions and tropes. What to say about the character development of Tatiana? I love her so much, the way she evolves and grows during the tale. Same applies to Eugene, who becomes humbler and wiser as time goes by.

Just to finish here (I could go on for hours!) I love the way you compare Tolstoy and Pushkin, by means of how the 1st one uses 1000+ pages to create a picture and feeling of the Napoleonic assault to Moscow, while the second needs a single stanza to achieve  it. I believe you have pointed out how same notion manifest different through different art forms and genius; prose asks for a spider web of details to engulf you, poetry uses very precise words with the right rhythm to shoot you straight to heart. And thus,both are masters of their craft :)

This was so lovely, thank you 😊 just found you channel and cannot wait to see your other videos. Also, The Captain´s Daughter from Pushkin is very lovely :)

Every time I buy a new book for my library and later when I annotate it while reading, I think about my future children reading this very same book, my notes on the sides :)