[4] Yevgeny Onegin lives a luxurious city life, attending balls, receptions, theater premieres, and other amusements, but he eventually grows disillusioned.
He lives in relative solitude until he meets his young, enthusiastic neighbor, Lensky, who has recently returned from abroad.
[5] The director did not want to use a large number of special effects, so it was decided to make the filming as real as possible and move it to places that Pushkin himself actually visited.
Filming took place in 2023 in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, among the locations you can see the Pevchesky Bridge, the Sukhanovo estate, and the Great Gatchina Palace.
According to Sarik Andreasyan, it turned out to be impossible to stylize the poetry of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin under prose, because the characters of the novel speak a language "unaffordable for the modern ear", and the screenwriters found a solution thanks to which the poems will sound natural in the frame.