‘Commentary’ includes both general articles that reveal the peculiarities of the noble life of Pushkin’s era, the internal chronology of the novel, the history of its creation, the problem of prototypes, and two types of explanations: textual ones (explaining the meaning of archaic words, lost realities and literary reminiscences) and conceptual ones (analyzing the structural features of the work, the originality of the author’s position, the logic of the development of the characters). In conclusion, a list of the main works on ‘Eugene Onegin’ is given, familiarity with which will help the reader better understand Pushkin’s novel, one of the most complex and significant works in Russian literature.