Alexander Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin was first published in full in 1833. The work is a novel in verse, not a conventional prose novel, and it emerged through a long process of serial publication.
Pushkin began writing it in 1823. Individual chapters and sections appeared separately over several years, with the final chapter published independently in 1832. The first complete book edition followed in 1833, bringing the work together in a single volume.
The date 1837 is a common source of confusion because Pushkin prepared a revised edition that year, shortly before his death. Modern accepted texts are largely based on that 1837 version, with some changes made to account for censorship. The poem’s central figures include the bored aristocrat Eugene Onegin, the idealistic poet Vladimir Lensky, and Tatyana Larina, whose emotional development anchors much of the story.