Tatyana's Inquisitive Gaze

Title

Tatyana's Inquisitive Gaze

Subject

Eugene Onegin: "Reading Fashion"

Description

Tatyana's introduction in Eugene Onegin, presented as more poised than her sister, Olga. 
 
 
 



Creator

Elizabeth LaFave

Source

Text: Alexander Pushkin; Eugene Onegin 
Image: Middleton Album, Hillwood Estate, Museum and Garden

Publisher

Text: Oxford's World Classics

Text

«Итак, она звалась Татьяной.

Ни красотой сестры своей,

Ни свежестью её румяной

Не привлекла б она очей.

Дика, печальна, молчалива,

Как лань лесная боязлива,

Она в семье своей родной

Казалась девочкой чужой» (2, XXV, 47). 


“So she was called Tatyana, reader.

She lacked that fresh and rosy tone

That made her sister’s beauty sweeter

And drew all eyes to her alone.

A wild creature, sad and pensive,

Shy as a doe and apprehensive,

Tatyana seemed among her kin

A stranger who had wandered in” (Chapter 2, Stanza 25, Page 47). 

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Date Added
August 21, 2017
Collection
"Reading" Fashion in A. Pushkin's Eugene Onegin: Word as Image in 1820s Imperial Russia
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Citation
Elizabeth LaFave, “Tatyana's Inquisitive Gaze,” Collections @ ECU, accessed March 29, 2024, http://collections.ecu.edu/items/show/579.