The article examines the theoretical and methodological foundations of analyzing artistic narrative in Alexander Pushkin’s novel in verse Eugene Onegin. The study is based on a complex methodological framework drawing on the literary theories of Mikhail Bakhtin, Yuri Lotman, and Alexander Veselovsky. These approaches make it possible to interpret narrative not as a linear sequence of events, but as a multi-level artistic system integrating authorial consciousness, textual structure, and cultural-historical context. Particular attention is paid to dialogism, the semiotic organization of the text, and the principle of free composition. The analysis demonstrates that Eugene Onegin represents an authorial-lyrical, lyric-epic, and dialogically structured type of narrative that played a decisive role in the development of the Russian novelistic tradition.

artistic narrative, authorial voice, dialogism, lyric-epic novel, free composition, Russian literature, Pushkin

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