À Vladivostok, mon amie Irina m’avait parlé des Filles de Tourgueniev – dont elle se sentait très proche. Nous avions dressé une liste des particularités des filles de Tourguéniev d’aujourd’hui : manières délicates, modestes, raffinées, simples, romantiques, vivent dans leurs rêves, féminine, tout en ne se maquillant pas, ni vulgaires, ni provocantes, ni sexys, s’habillent avec des vêtements rétro – voir vintage -, s’intéressent à la littérature, à la musique classique, jouent d’un instrument, connaissent plusieurs langues (souvent le Français et l’Italien), dansent la valse, rougissent lorsqu’elles entendent des impolitesses, elles ont des principes moraux bien établis et solides, dévouées, elles appartiennent à différentes couches sociales, elles ne sont pas réunies en réseau…
A few years ago, in Vladivostok, my friend Irina had spoken to me about – the Turgenev girls – with whom she felt very close. We had listed the peculiarities of today’s Turgenev girls: delicate manners, modest, refined, simple, romantic, living in their dreams, feminine, though with no make up, neither vulgar nor provocative, nor sexy, dressed with retro fashioned – even vintage – clothes, fond of literature, of classical music, playing an instrument, speaking several languages (often French and Italian), waltzing, blushing when they hear rude remarks, they have well established and strong moral principles, they are devoted, they come from several social classes, they are not part of any network…
Valentin Alexandrovitch Serov, Girl with peaches, 1887, Tetriakov gallery, Moscowapple, Vologda, Russian Federation, pigment ink print 18 x 18 cm, ed 5
Anastasia, Minsk, Belarus, pigment ink print 40 x 40 cm, ed 5
Anastasia, Minsk, Belarus, pigment ink print 40 x 40 cm, ed 5tree, Ostachkov, Russian Federation, pigment ink print 40 x 40 cm, ed 5Olga, Minsk, Belarus, pigment ink print 40 x 40 cm, ed 5entrance of kommunalka, Vladivostok, Russian federation, pigment ink print 40 x 40 cm, ed 5Maria, Moscow, Russian Federation, pigment ink print 40 x 40 cm, ed 5Glass of milk, Minsk, Belarus, pigment ink print 18 x 18 cm, ed 5Young woman, Braslav, Belarus, pigment ink print 40 x 40 cm, ed 5Tête-à-tête with Irina, Magadan, Russian Federation, pigment ink print 40 x 40 cm, ed 5Flowers on my desk, Minsk, Belarus, pigment ink print 18 x 18 cm, ed 5Yvan Kupala Day, Minsk, Belarus, pigment ink print 40 x 40 cm, ed 5Katerina, Minsk, Belarus, pigment ink print 40 x 40 cm, ed 5Yvan Kuala Day, Minsk, Belarus, pigment ink print 40 x 40 cm, ed 5
passage, Petersburg, Russian Federation, pigment ink print 40 x 40 cm, ed 5Nastya, Moscow, Russian Federation, pigment ink print 40 x 40 cm, ed 5Lady from Omsk, Minsk, Belarus, pigment ink print 40 x 40 cm, ed 5Birds on a window, Moscow, Russian Federation, pigment ink print 18 x 18 cm, ed 5Natacha, Moscow, Russian Federation, pigment ink print 40 x 40 cm, ed 5Apples, Gomel, Belarus, pigment ink print 18 x 18 cm, ed 5Katya, Moscow, Russian Federation, pigment ink print 40 x 40 cm, ed 5Church of Ostachkov, Russian Federation, pigment ink print 40 x 40 cm, ed 5Young lady with Butterflies on her dress, Moscow, Russian Federation, pigment ink print 40 x 40 cm, ed 5Photobook published by http://www.editionsbessard.com