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...first of these, the hero meets a soldier (Evgeni Urbanski) whose leg has been amputated. Invalided home, he is ashamed to face his wife as only half a man, decides to get lost instead-"Russia is big." The hero persuades him to go home. They arrive. The wife is not there. The soldier hangs on his crutches, a broken man. Suddenly a woman screams his name. His head snaps up. She runs to him, covers his face with kisses. All at once he sags with relief; a terrible joy fills his face; he crushes her in his arms...
Pushkin's verse novel "Evgeni Onegin," basis of an opera by Tchaikowsky, is shown in its rare original form a series of tiny volumes, published during 1825-32 in parts. The first complete edition of "Onegin," published within paper covers in 1833, is also exhibited...