A Russian Story

He is young intelligent well educated with patriotic sentiments. But certain misunderstandings oblige him to flee from Ukraine. For some reason everything in his life builds up to a certain Russian scenario. So to what extent should one burden Ukrainians with the outcome of this Russian Story? Finding himself involuntarily identified with Pushkins Eugene Onegin the hero of the novel Eugene Samarsky becomes a superfluous man in Ukraine. This novel by Eugenia Kononenko deals with love and the quest for ones own identity with the vaguely remembered circumstances rendering life nonsensical in Ukraine during the last years of the empire and the early years of independence. It considers the possibility of a mid-Atlantic meeting in todays globalised world.