PS: In V.Nabokov's commentary to EO (Bollingen)
pg.178, we find:
"Pushkin dedicated some licentious
lines to an even worse daub by the miserable Notbet in the same series:
'Tatiana writing to Onegin.' This represents a portly female in a clinging
nightdress, with some fat breast completely bare; she sits sideways in a
chair... I have wavered whether to quote these lines. Here they are, for what
they are worth:
'Through her chemise a
nipple blackens;
Delightful sight: one titty shows
Tatiana holds a
crumpled paper,
For she's beset with stomach throes.
So that is why
she got up so early
With the pale moonlight still about;
And tore up
for a wiping purpose
The Nevski Almanac, no
doubt'.
(One XLVIII)."