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Post by deuce on Oct 6, 2016 15:33:47 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 Oct 6, 2016 16:03:44 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Oct 6, 2016 16:43:59 GMT -5
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Post by trescuinge on Oct 7, 2016 6:46:39 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2016 12:53:34 GMT -5
Nice idea for a thread. There's some great art too.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2016 13:37:02 GMT -5
Russian Warriors by Mikhael V Gorelik.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2016 13:39:56 GMT -5
Russian Warriors by Mikhael V Gorelik, part 2
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2016 13:44:32 GMT -5
Russian Warriors by Mikhael V Gorelik, part 3
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Post by trescuinge on Oct 7, 2016 21:45:53 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Oct 7, 2016 21:53:51 GMT -5
I was unaware of the story behind it. So, very much like a "Russian 'Beowulf' " in its way. Who is the painter? Here is a little Borodin. Many people don't realize that Basil Poledouris was influenced by the darker, more epic side of Russian classical music. Click in about 3:00 where it starts picking up:
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Post by trescuinge on Oct 7, 2016 21:55:52 GMT -5
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Post by trescuinge on Oct 7, 2016 22:15:50 GMT -5
I was unaware of the story behind it. So, very much like a "Russian 'Beowulf' " in its way. Who is the painter? Here is a little Borodin. Many people don't realize that Basil Poledouris was influenced by the darker, more epic side of Russian classical music. Click in about 3:00 where it starts picking up: Viktor Vasnetsov
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Post by deuce on Oct 8, 2016 8:53:23 GMT -5
The "Battle on the Ice" scene from Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky with Prokofiev's soundtrack rerecorded with much better audio quality:
Milius has said numerous times that "Nevsky" was one of his major inspirations for CtB82.
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Post by deuce on Oct 10, 2016 11:53:01 GMT -5
I was unaware of the story behind it. So, very much like a "Russian 'Beowulf' " in its way. Who is the painter?
Viktor VasnetsovAh. I wondered! Until just now, I only knew him from this painting:
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2016 14:19:15 GMT -5
Alexander Borodin's Prince Igor the Movie (with subs) 1969.
The Polovtsian (Cuman/Kipchak) Dances can be found at 1hr 12min.
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