Salon Culture

Title

Salon Culture

Subject

Eugene Onegin: "Reading Fashion"

Description

The soirées of the Russian elite, as part of salon culture.

Creator

Elizabeth LaFave

Source

Text: Alexander Pushkin; Eugene Onegin 
Image: ZinaidaVolkonskaya's 'Salon in Moscow' 
           Лотман, Юрий. Бесебы о русской культуре. Санкт-Петербург, «Искусство-СПБ», 1994. 

Publisher

Text: Oxford's World Classics

Text

«Сквозь тесный ряд аристократов,

Военных франтов, дипломатов,

И гордых дам она скользит;

Вот села тихо и глядит,

Любуясь шумной теснотою,

Мельканьем платьев и речей,

Явленьем медленным гостей

Перед хозяйкой молодою» (8, VI, 187). 



“Through ranks of men from highborn classes,

Past diplomats and soldier-fops,

And haughty dames…then calmly stops

To sit and watch the grand procession—

The gowns, the talk, the milling mass,

The slow parade of guests who pass

Before the hostess in succession” (Chapter 8, Stanza 6, Page 187).


 

 

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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
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Citation
Elizabeth LaFave, “Salon Culture,” Collections @ ECU, accessed December 22, 2024, http://collections.ecu.edu/items/show/616.