Possible Clues:

• Pushkin protagonist
• Pushkin hero
• Tchaikovsky hero's individual spirit
• 1999 film starring Ralph Fiennes
• Pushkin's 'Eugene ___'
• See 6 Down
• Eugene still below the limit after this?
• ` `Eugene ......' '; Pushkin novel and Tchaikovsky opera
• Evidently abstemious Pushkin hero
• Eugene's gone mad at home