Chapter 1. The Sergeant of the guard. The Chapter opens with a biography of Peter Grineva: his father served, retired, the family had 9 children, but all except Peter, died in infancy. Even before his birth Grineva recorded in the Semenov regiment. Until adulthood, he was considered on vacation. Educates the boy's uncle Savelyevich, under whose leadership Petrushka mastering Russian grammar and learn to judge the merits of a Greyhound dog. Later it discharged a Frenchman beaupré, who was to teach the boy "in French, German and other Sciences", but education Petrusha he did, and drank and walked around the girls. Soon his father discovers this and expels the French. When Peter goes seventeenth year, his father sends him to the service, but not in Petersburg, it was hoped the son, and in Orenburg. Addressing his son, the father tells him to protect him "dress again, and honor of his youth."

Eugene Onegin is a novel in verse written by Alexander Pushkin. It has been recognized as a classic of Russian literature. The main character of the novel, Eugene Onegin, is a nobleman who has just taken over his uncle's estate.  The novel tells us about complicated relationships between Onegin and Tatiana Larina. Despite the fact that finally they love each other, they can't be together. And the reason of this situation is their own mistakes, and their inability to find the right way of life.