In the beginning...

[Inna Caron]

>Evgeniy Onegin ... has to wait till his uncle dies, and that's why he
has >to sit with the uncle day and night.

Actually, he didn't. The whole plan of sweet-taking the dying uncle was
completely imagined by Onegin (although very realistically) while he
letel na troikakh pochtovykh. By the time he got there it was
unnecessary, because the uncle already passed away.

Regardless of all possible interpretations, the uncle was still alive
when Onegin thought of him "on uvazhat' sebya zastavil," so it couldn't
have been used as a death idiom in this particular context.
 

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