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National personification of Russia
A cover of
Sentry [
ru ] magazine, approx. 1932, depicting Russia as a woman in a traditional costume liberated by a warrior in medieval armor with a shield depicting the
National russian , trampling the
Communist flag.
The personification of Russia is traditionally feminine and most commonly maternal since medieval times.
[1] Most common terms for
national personification of
Russia are:
Russian : Ма́тушка Росси́я ,
romanized : Matushka Rossiya (
dim. ); also
Russian : Мать-Росси́я ,
romanized : Mat'-Rossiya ; or
Russian : Ма́тушка Русь ,
romanized : Matushka Rus' ,
lit. 'Mother Rus''; or
Russian : Росси́я-ма́тушка ,
romanized : Rossiya-matushka ,
lit. 'Russia the Mother'
Russian : Ро́дина-мать ,
romanized : Rodina-mat
In the Russian language, the concept of
motherland is rendered by two terms:
"place of birth", (femenine gender,
Russian : ро́дина ,
romanized : rodina )
"fatherland", (masculine gender, Russian: отечество, отчи́зна , romanized: otchizna )
Harald Haarmann and
Orlando Figes see the goddess
Mokosh a source of the "Mother Russia" concept.
[2]
[3]
Usage
During the Soviet period, the Bolsheviks extensively utilized the image of "Motherland", especially during
World War II .
Statues
During the Soviet era, many statues depicting the Mother Motherland were built, most to commemorate the
Great Patriotic War . These include:
The Motherland Calls (
Russian : Родина-мать зовёт ,
tr. Rodina-mat' zovyot ), a colossal statue in Volgograd, Russia, commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad
Mother Motherland (
Ukrainian : Батьківщина-Мати ,
tr. Batʹkivshchyna-Maty ,
Russian : Родина-мать ,
tr. Rodina-mat' ), now called
Mother Ukraine , is a monumental statue in Kyiv that is a part of the
Museum of The History of Ukraine in World War II
Mother Motherland (Saint Petersburg) , a statue at the Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery, St. Petersburg, Russia
Mother Russia (Kaliningrad) , a monument in Kaliningrad, Russia
Mother Motherland Mourning over Her Perished Sons (
Russian : Родина-мать, скорбящая о погибших сыновьях ,
tr. Rodina-mat', skorbyashchaya o pogibshikh synov'yakh ),
Minsk , Belarus commemorating the dead in Afghanistan
Mother Motherland (Naberezhnye Chelny) [
ru ] , a monument in
Naberezhnye Chelny , Russia
[4]
Mother Motherland (Pavlovsk) , a memorial complex,
Pavlovsk, Voronezh Oblast , Russia
[5]
Motherland Monument (Matveev Kurgan)
See also
References
^ Рябов О. В. (1999). Русская философия женственности (XI—XX века) . Иваново. pp. 35–46. {{
cite book }}
: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link )
^ Harald Haarmann,
The Soul of Mother Russia: Russian Symbols and Pre-Russian Cultural Identity , ReVision
Archived 2016-04-09 at the
Wayback Machine , June 22, 2000 (retrieved May 2, 2016)
^
Figes, Orlando (2002). Natasha's Dance: a cultural history of Russia . New York:
Metropolitan Books . p. 321.
ISBN
9780805057836 . [...] the goddess known as Mokosh, from whom the myth of 'Mother Russia' was conceived.
^
Казань. Храм на шести сотках — Ольга Юхновская."Не йог, не маг и не святой" — Российская Газета — Этот объект не включен в программу подготовки к казанскому миллениуму. Но его, без сомнений, будут показывать гостям города как редкую достопримечательность. Создатель множества памятников, художник из пригорода Казани Ильдар Ханов к тысячелетию столицы Татарстана строит на своем участке храм всех религий. В свое время творчество Ханова высоко оценил Святослав Рерих
^
"Павловск (Воронежская область)" . Archived from
the original on 2011-01-24. Retrieved 2012-11-02 .
Further reading
Ellen Rutten, Unattainable Bride Russia: Gendering Nation, State, and Intelligentsia in Russian Intellectual Culture , 2010,
ISBN
0810126567 .
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