Eugene Onegin

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The novel by A. S. Pushkin "Eugene Onegin" is illustrated by the famous painter of the 1960th century, Lydia Timoshenko. Pushkin's main work was the only book that Timoshenko turned to as an illustrator. It was an experiment (from which, by the way, many colleagues dissuaded her), which completely captured the artist ... for twenty years. As a result, she created two different series of illustrations: one in oil, in the technique of grisaille, at the beginning of the post-war period (published in this edition), the second in the XNUMXs, in color lithography. To this day, the work of Lydia Timoshenko is considered the best embodiment of the images described in the novel. According to the well-known art historian L. A. Chegodaev, who together with his colleagues sought the publication of "Eugene Onegin", decorated with grisailles by L. Timoshenko, the artist approached Pushkin's great work "very psychologically sharpened and very dramatic." Timoshenko's illustrations help to perceive the novel as a very sad story about the tragedy of loneliness, about the history of an unforgivable mistake that destroyed the fate of both main characters, about the involuntary and sorrowful discord of two remarkable and significant people in a historical environment alien to both of them ... Tymoshenko turned out to be an independent pictorial poem, in in many ways complementing Pushkin's novel. Judging by diary entries, correspondence with friends and their memoirs published in this edition, it was precisely the creation of an “encyclopedia of Russian life in painting” that the artist aspired to in her Onegin.

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Publication language: Russian

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