Russian literature has been greatly influenced by the literary trope known as the superfluous man. This trope was ideal for writers to describe the flaws of high-class Russian society. A general consistency in dealing with the superfluous man has been witnessed, such as exhibiting cynicism and existential angst, while indulging in vices such as love affairs, gambling and dueling. These individuals typically come from noble origins but refuse to adapt to society and ignore social norms. This trend can be witnessed through many examples such as “Eugene Onegin” by Alexander Pushkin and “Diary of a Superfluous Man” by Ivan Turgenev. The characters described by these authors reflect the lifestyle of such a man and seem to imitate the lives of the men who wrote these stories, since in real life Pushkin and Turgenev were both to be described as superfluous men. Alexander Pushkin can best be described as an idle aristocrat, a man who excelled at being superfluous. As his own creation, Pushkin best plays his character in Eugene Onegin, following his own example. Born into an ancient and noble Russian family, Pushkin expertly plays his part. "The devious baseness, to be strangled, of entertaining the half-dead: in bed you smooth the pillows, and you sadly serve the medicine bottle, and you sigh, and you continually ask yourself: 'When will the devil come to get you?' " (Pushkin, II) Cynicism in Onegin reflects the unsatisfied and morbid curiosity of educated people, which in Russian culture is a natural reaction like the cynical realism of life. From his first studies in Lyceum, Pushkin excels in French, drawing, fencing and Russian, following the model of the superfluous man, Pushkin is a talented... middle of paper... countryman in this generation not only of the nobles, this idea of ​​what kind of men they really are, and whether their actions, whether there are, they have had some merit on society, witnessed through the melodrama created by Turgenev, "I am dying", as Tchulkaturin says "and at the point of death I really think one can excuse the desire to find out what kind of strange fish one was , after all. (Turgenev) The existential anguish and cynical nature of these men created the era of the superfluous in the era of revolution. In conclusion, the nature of the superfluous man is found not only in literature as a trope but also as a cultural location, since without his nature many events would not have happened. With the creation of the ideal aristocrat the innate being of many would not have been classified and the great works of their time would not have maintained the flame at which they are now..