Personification of Russia
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The personification of Russia is traditionally feminine and most commonly maternal since the Middle Ages.[1] The common terms for the national personification of Russia are:
- Mother Russia
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- Homeland the Mother
In the Russian language, the concept of motherland is rendered by two terms:
- "place of birth", (feminine gender, Template:Langx)
- "fatherland", (masculine gender, Template:Langx)
Harald Haarmann and Orlando Figes see the goddess Mokosh a source of the "Mother Russia" concept.[2][3] Mikhail Epstein states that Russia's historical reliance on agriculture supported a mythological view of the earth as a "divine mother", leading in turn to the terminology of "Mother Russia". Epstein also notes the feminine perceptions of the names Rus' and Rossiia, allowing for natural expressions of matushka Rossiia (Mother Russia).[4]
Usage
During the Soviet period, the Bolsheviks extensively utilized the image of "Motherland", especially during World War II.
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1914 Russian poster depicting the Triple Entente – Britannia (right) and Marianne (left) in the company of Mother Russia.
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"For the Motherland!" on a 1965 Soviet stamp. The literal translation is "Motherland calls!"
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 (Template:Langx, tr. Rodina-mat' zovyot), a colossal statue in Volgograd, Russia, commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad
- Mother Motherland (Template:Langx, tr. Batʹkivshchyna-Maty, Template:Langx, 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 (Template:Langx, tr. Rodina-mat', skorbyashchaya o pogibshikh synov'yakh), Minsk, Belarus commemorating the dead in Afghanistan
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- Mother Motherland (Pavlovsk), a memorial complex, Pavlovsk, Voronezh Oblast, Russia[6]
- Motherland Monument (Matveev Kurgan)
See also
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- Defender of the Fatherland Day
- Mat Zemlya
- Russian Bear
- Propaganda in Russia
- Propaganda in the Soviet Union
References
Further reading
- Ellen Rutten, Unattainable Bride Russia: Gendering Nation, State, and Intelligentsia in Russian Intellectual Culture, 2010, Template:ISBN.
External links
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- ↑ Harald Haarmann, The Soul of Mother Russia: Russian Symbols and Pre-Russian Cultural Identity, ReVision Template:Webarchive, June 22, 2000 (retrieved May 2, 2016)
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- ↑ 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
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