Tchaikovsky writes to Nadezhda von Meck that Tatyana is not just a provincial little girl that falls for the man of the world. She is a dreamy and impressionable young woman in search of her ideal love. If no one matches Tatyana’s ideal, she remains disappointed but serene. With the appearance of one man (Onegin) who stands out, Tatyana’s imagines that her ideal has come and her intense passion is revealed
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