Majestic Heels of Red

Majestic Heels of Red

Eugene Onegin: "Reading Fashion"

A popular shoe choice for women in the nineteenth century, associated with traditional Russian boots made of red leather.

Elizabeth LaFave

Text: Alexander Pushkin; Eugene Onegin 
Image: Russian Elegance: Country and City Fashion from the 15th to the Early 20th Century

Text: Oxford's World Classics
Image: Vivays Publishing

«Со славой красных каблуков

И величавых париков» (4, I-VI, 85).

“Amid our forbears’ vaunted day;

The fame of Lovelaces as faded—Along with fashions long since dead:

Majestic wigs and heels of red” (Chapter 4, Stanza 1-6, Page 85).