The Theatre
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Image: «Зефир и Флора», Авдотья Истомина
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Image: http://www.stranamam.ru/post/6367402/
Text
«Театр уж полон; ложи блещут;
Партер и кресла, всё кипит;
В райке нетерпеливо плещут,
И, взвившись, занавес шумит.
Блистательна, полувоздушна,
Смычку волшебному послушна,
Толпою нимф окружена,
Стоит Истомина; она,
Одной ногой касаясь пола,
Другою медленно кружит,
И вдруг прыжок, и вдруг летит,
Летит, как пух от уст Эола;
То стан совьёт, то разовьёт,
И быстрой ножкой ножку бьёт» (1, XX, 13).
“The theatre’s full, the boxes glitter;
The restless gallery claps and roars;
The stalls and pit are all ajitter;
The curtain restless as it soars.
And there…ethereal…resplendent,
Poised to the magic box attendant,
A throng of nymphs her guardian band,
Istomina takes up her stand.
One foot upon the ground she places
And then the other slowly twirls,
And now she leaps!
And now she whirls!
Like down from Eol’s lips she races;
Then spins and twists and stops to beat
Her rapid, dazzling, dancing feet” (Chapter 1, Stanza 20, Page 13).
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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
- Text
- Tags
- ballet, City, salon culture, theatre
- Citation
- Elizabeth LaFave, “The Theatre,” Collections @ ECU, accessed December 22, 2024, http://collections.ecu.edu/items/show/617.