The Grand Assembly

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Title

The Grand Assembly

Subject

Eugene Onegin: "Reading Fashion"

Description

A plethora of dandies and ladies dancing together in the ballroom, as part of the 'city' culture that Tatyana enters.

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

«Её привозят и в Собранье.

Там теснота, волненье, жар,

Музыки грохот, свеч блистанье,

Мельканье, вихорь быстрых пар,

Красавиц легкие уборы,

Людьми пестреющие хоры,

Невест обширный полукруг,

Всё чувства поражает вдруг.

Здесь кажут франты записные

Свое нахальство, свой жилет» (7, LI, 180). 



“They take her to the Grand Assembly;

And there the crush, the glare, the heat,

The music’s roar, the ballroom trembling,

Thee whirling flash of pairs of feet,

The beauties in their filmy dresses,

The swarming gallery throng that presses,

The host of girls on marriage hunts—

Assault the senses all at once.

Here practiced dandies bow and slither

To show their gall…and waistcoats too” (Chapter 7, Stanza 51, Page 180).

 

 

Citation

Elizabeth LaFave, “The Grand Assembly,” Collections @ ECU, accessed December 22, 2024, http://collections.ecu.edu/items/show/615.

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