(1799-1837) The greatest Russian poet before Akhmatova, and so famous that we need not here summarize the Wikipedia article . What concerns you to know, and which Wikipedia won’t help with, is how can you read him? You could of course learn Russian, and thanks to Mark Pettus superb Russian Through Propaganda textbooks, supported by free YouTube lessons, this is financially and even intellectually easy (if you’re willing to do the work.)

Otherwise, the only game in town was Walter Arndt’s Pushkin Threefold, which offered excellent literal translations, which show his brilliance, along with metered ones that make him sound stupid (which he is assuredly not.) But now Mark Pettus has provided a translation of Onegin which makes Pushkin’s genius accessible to the anglophone reader