In Chapter 4, Homeless hears this song from the opera Yevgeny Onegin flowing out of every open doors and windows in the city of Moscow. Eugene Onegin, composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, is based on the novel by Alexander Pushkin.
All windows were open. In each window there was a lamp under an orange shade, and from all windows, all doors, all gateways, roofs and attics, cellars and courtyards, came the hoarse blasts of the polonaise from the opera Yevgeny Onegin.
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