Sunday, June 6, 2010

Е is for Eugene Onegin



This vowel is pronounced "yeh" as in "yep" or "yen." When stressed, it sounds more like "yay." In handwriting, Ee looks like the English letter Ee in cursive: Ee.

Евгений Онегин/Eugene (Yevgeny) Onegin (1833) is the most famous work by the foremost of Russian writers, Aleksandr S. Pushkin. It is a "novel in verse" that tells the story of the titular bored and callow dandy and the quiet Tatyana who loves him ill-fatedly.

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