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When Vladimir Nabokov’s translation of Pushkin鈥檚 masterpiece Eugene Onegin was first published in 1964, it ignited a storm of controversy that famously resulted in the demise of Nabokov鈥檚 friendship with critic Edmund Wilson. While Wilson derided it as a disappointment in the New York Review of Books, other critics hailed the translation and accompanying commentary as Nabokov鈥檚 highest achievement. Nabokov himself strove to render a literal translation that captured 鈥渢he exact contextual meaning of the original,鈥� arguing that, 鈥渙nly this is true translation.鈥� Nabokov鈥檚 Eugene Onegin remains the most famous and frequently cited English-language version of the most celebrated poem in Russian literature, a translation that reflects a lifelong admiration of Pushkin on the part of one of the twentieth century鈥檚 most brilliant writers. Now with a new foreword by Nabokov biographer Brian Boyd, this edition brings a classic work of enduring literary interest to a new generation of readers.