JM: Great assembly of links, Alexey. The most
surprising for me were Van's nurse Tatiana (she spurns him and later writes him
a love letter as it happens in EO)...
In
EO it happens the other way round: Tatiana writes Onegin a love letter and later
turns him down (in fact, it is Onegin who spurns Tatiana and later writes her a
love letter).
Russian
critics early recognized Sirin's knack of turning the theme inside out, as if it
were a glove.
Alexey
Sklyarenko