title: Strong Words: Poetry in a Russian and English Edition
author: Alexander Pushkin
description: Alexander Pushkin was a novelist, dramatist and poet, penning such influential works as "Eugene Onegin" and "Boris Godunov." He is now considered the father of modern Russian literature. Anna Akhmatova was a modernist poet and is recognized as one of the greatest 20th-century Russian poets. She was at times censored or even condemned by the Stalinist government. Andrei Voznesenski was considered one of the most daring writers of the Soviet era, but his style often led to criticism from his contemporaries and even a threat of expulsion. Before his death, he was both critically and popularly proclaimed a living classic and an icon of Soviet intellectuals. Vladimir Azarov is an architect and poet whose books include "Dinner with Catherine the Great," "The Kiss from Mary Pickford," "Imitation," "Of Life &amp; Other Small Sacrifices," and "Voices in Dialogue." Barry Callaghan is an author, poet, and anthologist. He is the editor in chief of both Exile Editions and "Exile: the Literary Quarterly" and he is the author of numerous books that include "Beside Still Waters "and "Between Trains."
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  ## Eugene Oneguine [Onegin]. A Romance of Russian Life in Verse
  
  
    
  
  
  ### Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## EUGENE ONEGUINE [Onegin]:
  
  
  ## A Romance of Russian Life in Verse
  
  
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  ## ALEXANDER PUSHKIN
  
  
  ## Translated from the Russian by Lieut.-Col. [Henry] Spalding
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  **PREFACE**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Eugene Oneguine, the chief poetical work of Russia's greatest poet, having
  been translated into all the principal languages of Europe except our own, I
  hope that this version may prove an acceptable contribution to literature.
  Tastes are various in matters of poetry, but the present work possesses a more
  solid claim to attention in the series of faithful pictures it offers of
  Russian life and manners. If these be compared with Mr. Wallace's book on
  Russia, it will be seen that social life in that empire still preserves many
  of the characteristics which distinguished it half a century ago—the period of
  the first publication of the latter cantos of