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# Strange as it may seem, Pushkin and Eugene Onegin are mentioned in Epstein's correspondence
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/kak-ni-stranno-no-v-perepiske-epshteina-upominaetsia-pushkin-i-evgenii-onegin/
- Published: 2026-02-01T15:56:08.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:27:08.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Aristocracy, Archive, Books, Observations, New York, Society, Paris, Saint Petersburg

Strange as it may seem, Pushkin and Eugene Onegin are mentioned in Epstein's correspondence. The context is yet another girl whom he is being urged to take on. It is reported that she is connected to the Russian imperial family, and that her great-great-grandfather, a certain admiral, is supposedly mentioned in *Eugene Onegin*.

The one who comes to my mind is Admiral Alexander Semyonovich Shishkov from Chapter 8: "Du comme il faut… Shishkov, forgive me: / I know not how to translate it."

Or else Prince N., Tatyana Larina's husband. In Tchaikovsky's opera this character acquires the name of a battle-hardened general, Mikhail Gremin.

I do not know who wrote these letters to Epstein, but it was a Russian, since on the screenshot of the correspondence the days of the week are displayed in Russian.

So this Russian "pimp" is clearly well read, if he is familiar with the theory that the prototype of Prince N. was the thirty-six-year-old General Mikhail Vorontsov, who came to Paris for his bride in 1819\. There he was betrothed to the twenty-seven-year-old Elizaveta Branicka of Bila Tserkva. The prototype of Onegin himself in this theory is Vorontsov's former aide-de-camp Alexander Raevsky, with whom he recalls "the pranks, the jests of bygone years".

It turns out that some descendant of Vorontsov fell into Epstein's clutches.

She would have done better to become a ballerina.

> Her name is \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ I have a feeling that you will like her very much. She was born in the States (she has a passport), but grew up in Saint Petersburg. She was accepted into the Vaganova ballet school, but she turned it down. She is from the Russian tsarist family, her great-grandfather was an admiral and is mentioned in Pushkin's poem *Eugene Onegin*. She is a good girl, we have been friends for about three years, and now, in my view, she badly needs help. I tried to persuade her to meet you, but she hesitated; now at last she is in New York and I can arrange everything.

> As for the CV, it is very random: waitress, nanny, and so on. Although she is very well read and clever.