A Chemise

Title

A Chemise

Subject

Eugene Onegin: "Reading Fashion"

Description

Tatyana's night clothes.

Creator

Elizabeth LaFave

Source

Text: Alexander Pushkin; Eugene Onegin 


Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1830s Culture

Publisher

Text: Oxford's World Classics
Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Text

«К плечу головушкой склонилась.

Сорочка легкая спустилась

С её прелестного плеча... » (3, XXXII, 76). 



“Her head is bowed, as if she’s dozing;

Her light chemise has slipped, exposing

Her lovely shoulder to the night” (Chapter 3, Stanza 32, Page 76). 



 

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Date Added
September 24, 2017
Collection
"Reading" Fashion in A. Pushkin's Eugene Onegin: Word as Image in 1820s Imperial Russia
Item Type
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Citation
Elizabeth LaFave, “A Chemise,” Collections @ ECU, accessed November 21, 2024, http://collections.ecu.edu/items/show/604.