Bolivar: A Top Hat

Title

Bolivar: A Top Hat

Subject

Eugene Onegin: "Reading Fashion"

Description

Popular as part of salon culture, men often sported Bolivar top hats. 

Creator

Elizabeth LaFave

Source

Text: Alexander Pushkin; Eugene Onegin 
Image: Красавец мужчина. Русский модник XVIII – начала ХХ века / Авт. –сост. Н.М. Виноградова

Publisher

Text: Oxford's World Classics
Image: M. Исторический музей

Text

«Что? Приглашенья?

В самом деле,

Три дома на вечер зовут:

Там будет бал, там детский праздник.

Куда ж поскачет мой проказник?

С кого начнет он? Всё равно:

Везде поспеть немудрено.

Покамест в утреннем уборе,

Надев широкий боливар,

Онегин едет на бульвар

И там гуляет на просторе,

Пока недремлющий брегет

Не прозвонит ему обед» (1, XIII-XIV, 10).



“What? Invitations? Yes, three houses

Have asked him to a grand soiree.

There’ll be a ball, a children’s party;

Where will he dash to, my good hearty?

Where will he make the night’s first call?

Oh, never mind—he’ll make them all.

But meanwhile, dressed for morning pleasure,

Bedecked in broad-brimmed Bolivar,

He drives to Nevsky Boulevard,

To stroll about at total leisure,

Until Breguet’s unsleeping chime” (Chapter 1, Stanza 13-14, Page 10).

 

 

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Date Added
September 25, 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, “Bolivar: A Top Hat,” Collections @ ECU, accessed March 29, 2024, http://collections.ecu.edu/items/show/613.