A Tulle Bonnet

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Title

A Tulle Bonnet

Subject

Eugene Onegin: "Reading Fashion"

Description

Headwear of many types was popular amongst both the elite and peasantry in XIX century Russia.

Creator

Elizabeth LaFave

Source

Text: Alexander Pushkin; Eugene Onegin
Image: Костюм в Русский Художественной Культуре

Publisher

Text: Oxford's World Classics
Image: Большая Советская Энициклопедия

Text

«У тётушки княжны Елены

Всё тот же тюлевый чепец» (7, XLV, 177). 


“Old Elena never falters

And wears that same tulle bonnet yet” (Chapter 7, Stanza 45, Page 177).

Citation

Elizabeth LaFave, “A Tulle Bonnet,” Collections @ ECU, accessed November 21, 2024, http://collections.ecu.edu/items/show/596.

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