Onegin summary thing-ama-jig

The four main characters are Eugene Onegin, Vladimir Lenski, Tanya Larina, Olga Larina. The relation between fiction and real life is a major theme in Onegin. As art often imitates life, people are also often influenced by art. Onegin is hugely allusive to other literary works, like The History of Love, and "Don Juan."
Eugene Onegin inherits a country mansion from his his uncle. When he moves to the country he strikes up an unlikely friendship with the minor poet Vladimir Lensky. One day Lensky takes Onegin to dine with the family of his fiance Olga Larin. At this meeting Tanya, Olga's sister, falls in love with Onegin. During the night Tanya writes a letter to Onegin professing her love and has it sent to Onegin, something the heroine in her book would do. However, contrary to her expectations, Onegin does not reply by letter. The two next meet on his next visit where he rejects her advances in a speech that I would describe as reasonable and tactfully honest but also pompous and condescending. On the same night as the party, Onegin is challenged to a duel by Lensky, something neither are terribly excited to commit. However, the duel is fought and ends with Onegin winning.
Later in their lives, Onegin has returned to St. Petersburg, and Tanya has become married to a prince. It is painfully obvious, however, that neither are happy in their new predicaments. Tanya is trapped into a marriage that she does not want. For her heroine would never be unfaithful to her husband. So, she compromises by losing all of her feelings. She even stops dancing in order to deal with the pain of being away from the one she loves. This also stops her from accepting Onegin's proposal at the end. They both live out their lives as shells of their former selves.