SLG Celje, 23. april 2018 ― Alexander Pushkin (1799, Moscow  ̶  1837, St. Petersburg) was the founder of modern Russian literature in the Romantic period, and is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, writer and playwright. He engaged in all literary genres of the time  ̶ lyrical poetry, epic poetry, novels, short stories, plays, critical essays, personal letters and historical fiction, and introduced common speech in his writing too.   Pushkin’s novel has been stage adapted by Nebojša Pop-Tasić (born in 1962 in Zemun, Serbia), who has firmly established himself in Slovenian theatre as a versatile author, director, playwright, composer and an acclaimed screenwriter.The stage adaptation of Eugene Onegin will be directed by Yulia Roschina (born in 1982 in Moscow), who previously directed Pop-Tasić’s adaptation of Madam Bovary, winning the national Borštnik Award for Best Director in 2015.   Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse, was published in instalments between 1825 and 1832, and finally in 1833 in its entirety. It took seven years, four months and seventeen days for this celebrated novel, often considered a classic of Russian literature, to be finished. Its epic base contains lyrical elements, as well as irony and satire.