Russian Traditional Dress

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Title

Russian Traditional Dress

Subject

Eugene Onegin: Reading Fashion

Description

Russian pride in traditional clothing.

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

«Но в городах, по деревням
Ещё мазурка сохранила
Первоначальные красы:
Припрыжки, каблуки, усы
Всё те же: их не изменила
Лихая мода, наш тиран,
Недуг новейших россиян» (5, XLII, 128).


1. “But in small town and countryside
The old mazurka hasn’t faltered;
It still retains its pristine joys:
Moustaches, leaps, heel-pounding noise
Remain the same; they’ve not been altered
By tyrant-fashion’s high decrees,
The modern Russian’s new disease” (Chapter 5, Stanza 42, Page 128).

Citation

Elizabeth LaFave, “Russian Traditional Dress,” Collections @ ECU, accessed November 21, 2024, http://collections.ecu.edu/items/show/590.

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