Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

XVIII

A magic region! There in olden years the sovereign of courageous satire, sparkled Fonvizin, freedom's friend, 4 and imitational Knyazhnin; there Ozerov involuntary tributes of public tears, of plaudits shared with the young Semyonova; 8 there our Katenin resurrected Corneille's majestic genius; there caustic Shahovskoy brought forth the noisy swarm of his comedies; 12 there, too, Didelot did crown himself with glory; there, there, beneath the shelter of coulisses, my young days sped.