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Tatyana Larina
Tatyana
also: Татьяна, Татьяна Ларина
The heroine of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, whose unanswered letter of confession to Onegin is the most famous declaration of love in Russian literature; the model Nadya Zelenina consciously imitates when she sits down, straight from the opera, to write her own confession letter.
Reading notes
- After the Theatre §1 Tatyana's
Tatyana Larina, the heroine of Eugene Onegin, whose unanswered letter confessing her love to Onegin (Chapter Three) is the most celebrated declaration of love in Russian literature. Nadya, straight from the opera, sits down to write a letter modeled on it.
- After the Theatre §4 Tatyana
Repeated reference to Pushkin's heroine, here as the model of a woman made "enchanting" by loving more than she is loved -- the sentiment Nadya is trying on for herself.