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There is no proof of this in Pushkin's novel. Tatiana's behavior was not completely independent, in the sense that it was motivated by the literature that the heroine read.�In the novel, there is a significant episode where it is said that she keeps fashionable Richardson novels under her pillow, and her father is not too interested in his daughter's reading circle. And there is a characteristic passage: “She loved Richardson / Not because she'd read it, not because she'd preferred Grandison to Lovelace … Princess Alina … I often told her about them.” We are talking about Richardson's novel “The Story of Sir Charles Grandison”, where the virtuous Grandison is contrasted with the vicious Lovelace. And in Pushkin, it is not very clear who Tatiana prefers, maybe even a Ladies ' Man who looks like Onegin. But that's not the point. The point is that the story of this novel is one of the subtexts of the story told in “Eugene Onegin” and a model of behavior of the characters of Pushkin's novel. In other words, we can cautiously assume that Tatiana's actions were largely motivated by the behavior of the characters she read about. But this does not change the fact that in the novel we see many confirmations of Tatiana's love for Onegin. Let's recall at least the second letter from Tatiana. Years later, she admits that she loved him (“Onegin, I was younger then, / I think I was better, / And I loved you; and what is it? What have I found in your heart?”).