Eugene Onegin: "Reading Fashion"
Text: Alexander Pushkin; Eugene Onegin Image: Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear
Text: Oxford's World Classics Image: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Onegin's accordance with fashion. Even in hairstyle, he sported the stylish English short cut.
Onegin's attention to the finer details of appearance, including nails and hands, characterized a dandy.
Although characterized as the stereotypical damsel, Olga appears boring in comparison to Tatyana.
Text: Alexander Pushkin; Eugene Onegin Image:Костюм в Русский Художественной Культуре
Text: Oxford's World Classics Image: Большая Советская Энициклопедия
Headwear of many types was popular amongst both the elite and peasantry in XIX century Russia.
Text: Alexander Pushkin; Eugene Onegin Image: Костюм в Русский Художественной Культуре
Tatyana's transformation into the city's fashionable elite, following European standards.
Text: Alexander Pushkin; Eugene Onegin Source: Костюм в Русский Художественной Культуре
Pushkin utilized the French term 'boa' (fur shawl) in the same stanza as 'ливрей', a Russian term for the official clothing of men for the tsar. An example of European influences transcending into Russian culture.
Text:Alexander Pushkin; Eugene Onegin Image: Костюм в Русский Художественной Культуре
Vladimir Lensky's soulful introduction; the opposite of Onegin from personality to his longer romantic hairstyle.
Text: Alexander Pushkin; Eugene Onegin Image: E. Samokish-Sudkovsky for Eugene Onegin, 1908 Костюм в Русский Художественной Культуре
Onegin and Lensky mended their opposing personalities to form a blossoming friendship, through afternoons spent on horseback.
Fashions of Toilette: Pantaloons, Frock, and Жилет
Continued European influences on Russian styles and fashion amongst the city's elite.
Text: Alexander Pushkin; Eugene Onegin Image: Костюм в Русский Художественной Культуре Лотман, Юрий. Бесебы о русской культуре. Санкт-Петербург, «Искусство-СПБ», 1994.