This article offered for your kind consideration is the last work of Natalia Leonidovna Vershinina (1951 - 2019), professor of the Department of Russian Literature at Pskov State University. Unfortunately, Prof. Vershinina did not have time to fully prepare it for publication, so it may lack certain expressiveness. However, the editorial board of the journal "Palimpsest", considering the importance and originality of the provisions and observations expressed in this article, considered it possible to publish it in the form in which it remained after the scientist passed away, having only corrected technical flaws and reconstructed the list of references. The main advantage of the published article of Natalia Vershinina is the correlation of the actions of the characters in Pushkin's novel in verse with the moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant (this, of course, is not about the direct dialogue of the Russian poet and the German thinker, but about the dialogue of two ethical programs, expressed in one case in artistic form, and in the other - in the form of an integral scientific system). The imperativeness of Onegin and Tatiana's will, declared at the level of verbal utterances, contrasts with the many deviations from what is positioned by them as mandatory and unchanging. The dialectic of the imperative and the possible, which permeates almost 16 the entire novel in verse, forms a series of complex ethical collisions that ensure the dynamic development of the artistic plot. In addition, the article suggests that in "Eugene Onegin" A.S. Pushkin comprehends his fate through the fate of the "other", supplementing the image of the protagonist with various features of the author's personal world
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