Famous pushkin poems in russian
Pushkin poems in russian and english.
Russian poems with english translation
This translation of Yevgeny Onegin was done between January 2000 and February 2001 as a project for the Internet. It is not intended to supercede all other translations.
The reality is that very little Pushkin in English was to be found on the Internet at the time of writing. Even the two providers of free texts, Project Gutenberg and the Oxford Text Archive, offer nothing at all of Pushkin's (Jan 2001).
[Now however I am glad to say that more is available.]
The intention of this web site is to make some of Pushkin's work freely available in English to all who have access to a computer.
Short russian poems in russianThe English translation offered is provided for those who cannot read the Russian, but who still wish to read Pushkin, and also as an aid to students. It has tried to follow the original fairly closely, so that as far as possible the English reader can see which line of the original the translation derives from.
Nevertheless some freedom has been used,