The personification of Russia is traditionally feminine and most commonly maternal since medieval times.[1]
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 Tsarist flag, trampling the Bolshevik flag.
Mother Russia (Russian: Матушка Россия, tr.Matushka Rossiya, "Mother Russia"; also, Россия-матушка, tr. Rossiya-matushka, "Russia the Mother", Мать-Россия, tr. Mat'-Rossiya, Матушка Русь, tr. Matushka Rus' , "Mother Rus' "),
Homeland the Mother (Russian: Родина-мать, tr.Rodina-mat' ).
In the Russian language, the concept of motherland is rendered by two terms: "родина" (tr.rodina), literally, "place of birth" and "отчизна" (tr.otchizna), literally "fatherland".
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
^Рябов О. В. (1999). Русская философия женственности (XI—XX века). Иваново. pp. 35–46.
^Harald Haarmann, The soul of Mother Russia: Russian Symbols and Pre-Russian Cultural Identity, ReVision 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. ISBN9780805057836. [...] 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
^. 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, ISBN0810126567. The book discusses personifications of Russia as a bride in 20th century Russian literature and art.
External links
Media related to Mother Russia at Wikimedia Commons
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