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Post by deuce on Sept 12, 2017 13:17:35 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Sept 20, 2017 0:29:54 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Oct 16, 2017 14:11:22 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Oct 17, 2017 11:24:19 GMT -5
Donatan & Cleo telling us all about being Slavic:
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Post by Jason Aiken on Oct 21, 2017 20:14:40 GMT -5
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Post by BlackHeart on Oct 24, 2017 2:41:43 GMT -5
Well, Vikings have found first Russian states. Even their name - Rusia - has come from northern viking tribe Russ. So, originaly, Rusians are nordic-slavic people. Even their first rullers was Viking born wariors and lords.
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Post by deuce on Oct 24, 2017 9:12:23 GMT -5
His name was "Vladimir", his father also had a Slavic name, his mother was Slavic and he was born in Russia. It's fine right here. Vladimir is a fascinating character. He had close connections to Harald Hardraada.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2017 12:08:27 GMT -5
I remember seeing this at a bookstall by Waterloo Bridge. The copy I found had a different cover, it intrigued me enough to have a look and I read a bit about the encounters between the Pechenegs and the early Rus. I decided against picking it up at the time, I kinda regret that now. Here's the cover of the other edition.
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Post by sath on Oct 24, 2017 14:02:37 GMT -5
Well, Vikings have found first Russian states. Even their name - Rusia - has come from northern viking tribe Russ. So, originaly, Rusians are nordic-slavic people. Even their first rullers was Viking born wariors and lords. some Russian historians consider this to be incorrect. This is a kind of national pride in Russia
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Post by keith on Nov 21, 2017 5:07:58 GMT -5
Bront has recently pointed out to me that we don't have a thread on Russian folklore etc... Other than a healthy Cold War interest in the Soviet Union (including the WWII era), I never paid much attention to Russia or Slavic matters in general. I'd seen Doctor Zhivago as a child and didn't really "get" it. I did learn about various aspects of early Slavic culture/folklore when I read Keith Taylor's classic Bard II: The First Longship, which had a substantial part take place along the Baltic coast. Its big villain was Taylor's take on Koschei the Deathless from Slavic myth. I thought KT had made up Koschei at the time. I read CJ Cherryh's Rusalka at some point in the '90s. A link here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Russian_Stories_(C._J._Cherryh)Even my cousin (RIP) studying Russian to be a translator (we have no Russian background) didn't do much to spur my interest beyond a very low level. It took me reading Osprey's two books on medieval Russia, along with the publication of Harold Lamb's Cossack/Russian tales to get me fairly interested. That was around 2007. Even then, it was several years before I looked into much else concerning the Slavs and Russia. Bront's right. Now's the time for a thread on this. We have similar ones on the Vikings, Native Americans, etc. Plus, we just had a Russian join the forum. Besides actual Slavic Russia, this thread will also (occasionally) look at pre-Slavic archaeology from the region of what is now modern Russia. The Russians have certainly taken the pre-Slavic site of Arkaim to their hearts. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkaim
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Post by deuce on Dec 1, 2017 11:32:52 GMT -5
More paintings of his native Russia by Russian painter and explorer, Nicholas Roerich...
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Post by deuce on Dec 12, 2017 0:31:34 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2017 16:38:26 GMT -5
Here's an interesting publication. Not certain if this should be in the Viking or Warriors of the Steppe thread, anyway here goes. Iuliia Stepanova, The Burial Dress of the Rus' in the Upper Volga Region (Late 10th-13th Centuries), Brill, 2017
This book is devoted to the Old Rus’ dress of the Upper Volga area, as gleaned from the archaeological evidence of the burial sites. The organic remains of dress and metal and glass ornaments and fasteners are considered. Issues such as the social status and age of the buried individuals, as well as the influence of various ethnic groups (including East Slavic groups, Finno-Ugric tribes and the Balts ) on the dress of the Old Rus’, are addressed through the study of variants of male and female headdresses, clothes and accessories. Furthermore, a detailed study of the evolution of the headdress and the structure of jewelry from the late 10th century to the 13th century is offered. www.amazon.co.uk/10th-13th-Centuries-Central-Eastern-450-1450/dp/9004314652/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1513546685&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=the+burial+dress+of+the+rus%27+in+the+upper+volta+region
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Post by deuce on Dec 20, 2017 13:04:02 GMT -5
The Battle of Kosovo in 1389 was a major event in the history of the Serbian people: infogalactic.com/info/Battle_of_kosovoRobert E. Howard knew of the battle and commented on it to Lovecraft: 'Another thing - I have no patience with writers, historical or fictional, who glorify Oriental [ie, non-Western] monarchs, comparing them with western rulers, to the discredit of the later; who decry the outrages committed by the westerners on the Orientals, and then gloss over the atrocities of the latter, holding up some western outrage as some excuse. Westerners have suffered a hell of a lot more outrages at the hands of the Orientals than vice versa. I am utterly unmoved when I read of massacres of Asiatics - especially Muhammadans - by Christians. They started it, blast their hides - back in the days of Peter the Hermit, when the Seljuks took Palestine and started maltreating pilgrims to Jerusalem. And before that, in the days of Muhammad, and of the Caliphs - and of the Moors in Spain. Not a blow struck against Islam but we owed it to them.
Even Stanley Lane-Poole deplores the action of Milosh Kabilovitch, who struck down Murad in the hour of victory at Kossovo - he looks on it as a traitorous murder, apparently. Bah! Who ever heard of such infernal drivel. Which was worse - Milosh, who approached the Turk smiling, and suddenly drove the dagger in his guts, or Murad, who had just butchered a nation, and dragged thousands of innocent men, women and children into slavery? I have intense admiration for Milosh - and for Ehud the Benjamite who stabbed Eglon the Moabitish tyrant - and for William Tell, whether real or legendary.'
-- Robert E. Howard in a letter to HP LovecraftOne legacy of the battle was the Serbian tale of the "Kosovo Maiden": infogalactic.com/info/Kosovo_Maiden_(poem)Uros Predic, a Serbian artist, is justly famed for his painting inspired by the folktale. A cool post on Balkan epic poems, especially The Battle of Kosovo: www.quidplura.com/?p=201
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Post by deuce on Jan 22, 2018 12:10:01 GMT -5
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