Stylish Bride and Groom
Title
Stylish Bride and Groom
Subject
Eugene Onegin: "Reading Fashion"
Description
Although stylish, the bride still did not have a right to choose her own groom.
Creator
Elizabeth LaFave
Source
Text: Alexander Pushkin; Eugene Onegin
Image: Russian Elegance: Country and City Fashion from the 15th to the Early 20th Century
Image: Russian Elegance: Country and City Fashion from the 15th to the Early 20th Century
Publisher
Text: Oxford's World Classics
Image: Vivays Publishing
Image: Vivays Publishing
Text
«Как он, она была одета
Всегда по моде и к лицу;
Но, не спросясь её совета,
Девицу повезли к венцу» (2, XXXI, 50).
“About her clothes one couldn’t fault her;
Like him, she dressed as taste decreed.
But then they led her to the altar
And never asked if she agreed” (Chapter 2, Stanza 31, Page 50).
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- Date Added
- September 11, 2017
- Collection
- "Reading" Fashion in A. Pushkin's Eugene Onegin: Word as Image in 1820s Imperial Russia
- Item Type
- Text
- Tags
- bride, groom
- Citation
- Elizabeth LaFave, “Stylish Bride and Groom,” Collections @ ECU, accessed November 21, 2024, http://collections.ecu.edu/items/show/591.