Fur Coats: Шуба

Title

Fur Coats: Шуба

Subject

Eugene Onegin: "Reading Fashion"

Description

Often worn to keep warm during the coldest months, fur coats were a staple worn by the masses; paired with both traditional Russian clothing and the western European styles.

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

«Еще усталые лакеи

На шубах у подъезда спят» (1, XXII, 14). 



“And while the weary band of servants

Still sleeps on furs at carriage door” (Chapter 1, Stanza 22, Page 14).

 

 

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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, “Fur Coats: Шуба,” Collections @ ECU, accessed April 19, 2024, http://collections.ecu.edu/items/show/621.