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The title is occasionally translated as The Tale of the Campaign of Igor, The Song of Igor's Campaign, The Lay of Igor's Campaign, The Lay of the Host of Igor, and The Lay of the Warfare Waged by Igor. The poem gives an account of a failed raid of Igor Svyatoslavich (d. 1202) against the Polovtsians of the Don River region.
Igor Svyatoslavich [a] (3 April 1151 – c. 1201), ... On his campaign against the Cumans, a heroic poem was written which is the peak of Russian Bylinas. [5]
Prince Igor (Russian: Князь Игорь, romanized: Knyaz Igor, listen ⓘ) is an opera in four acts with a prologue, written and composed by Alexander Borodin.The composer adapted the libretto from the early Russian epic The Lay of Igor's Host, which recounts the campaign of the 12th-century prince Igor Svyatoslavich against the invading Cuman ("Polovtsian") tribes in 1185. [1]
The following year, Könchek defeated the prince Igor Svyatoslavich, who was taken prisoner near the Kaiala river (possibly modern Kalmius river). [2] Igor's campaign against Könchek became the subject of an epic poem, The Tale of Igor's Campaign. Könchek died in 1187.
[11]: 21, 22 Igor Svyatoslavich, prince of the Principality of Novgorod-Seversk, attacked the Cumans in the vicinity of the Kayala river in 1185 but was defeated; this battle was immortalized in the Rus' epic poem The Tale of Igor's Campaign, and Alexander Borodin's opera, Prince Igor. The dynamic pattern of attacks and counterattacks between ...
Lay of Igor's Campaign narrates the expedition of Igor Svyatoslavich, the prince of Novgorod-Seversk, against the Cumans. It is neither epic nor a poem but is written in rhythmic prose. An interesting aspect of the text is its mix of Christianity and ancient Slavic religion. Igor's wife Yaroslavna famously invokes natural forces from the walls ...
The Tale of Igor's Campaign (Слово о пълкѹ Игоревѣ), an epic poem in Old East Slavic, describes a failed raid made in the year 1185 by a Christian army led by Prince Igor Svyatoslavich of Novhorod-Siverskyi, in the Chernihiv Oblast of modern Ukraine, against the Polovtsians , Pagan Turkic nomads living along the southern banks ...
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