Shoe of the People of Nature

Title

Shoe of the People of Nature

Subject

Eugene Onegin: "Reading Fashion"

Description

Made from bast fibers, these woven shoes were often worn by traditional Russian shepherds.

Creator

Elizabeth LaFave

Source

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

Publisher

Text: Oxford's World Classics
Image: Vivays Publishing

Text

«Пастух по-прежнему поёт

И обувь бедную плетёт» (7, VII, 160).



“Alone the shepherd, grey and weary,

Beneath it sings as in the past and plaits his simple shoes of

bast” (Chapter 7, Stanza 7, Page 160).

 

 

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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, “Shoe of the People of Nature,” Collections @ ECU, accessed March 29, 2024, http://collections.ecu.edu/items/show/620.