After Onegin flirted with Olga, Olga apparently attracted to Onegin. Due to his exaggerated earnestness and inexperience, Lensky is wounded to the core and issues a challenge to Onegin for a request of a duel. However Onegin does not want to have a duel with Lensky, since he is Onegin’s best friend, and there must be someone’s death. So he reluctantly accepts the duel. In the next day, Lensky waits with his assistant who counts the exactly third-two steps for the distance. It is Lensky’s first time to duel, and actually he has no experience about that. However, Onegin is expert at this cruel “game”. Therefore, neither of them shoots to the other one at the beginning, what they do is just walking closer towards each other.
In the movie, Lensky shoots first, but misses. Then Onegin holds down the gun then shoot Lensky in the head. Then Onegin steps up to Lensky, feeling so regretful. However, things are a little bit different in the novel. Actually Onegin shoot first and Lensky just falls down and lies on the ground, them the assistants take Lensky away as Onegin turns around and leaves.
After that, Onegin then quits his country estate, choosing travel as a means of deadening his feelings of remorse.
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