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The word bylina derives from the past tense of the verb to be (Russian: был, romanized: byl) and implies 'something that was'. [4] The term most likely originated from scholars of Russian folklore (folklorists); in 1839, Ivan Sakharov, a Russian folklorist, published an anthology of Russian folklore, a section of which he titled "Byliny of the Russian People", causing the popularization of ...
B Portrait Person Notable works Eduard Bagritsky (1895–1934) February Konstantin Balmont (1867–1942) Under the Northern Sky Let Us Be Like the Sun Burning Buildings Jurgis Baltrušaitis (1873–1944) Evgeny Baratynsky (1800–1844) Eda The Gypsy The Last Poet Autumn Ivan Barkov (1732–1768) obscene poems Anna Barkova (1901–1976) Tatar Anguish Agniya Barto (1906–1981) Toys Mishka the ...
The Oka river was a homeland to Slavic tribes from which Russian culture grew. South Slavic culture grew in Balkan region [4] West Slavic people grew most likely in eastern Poland. [5] [6] Nature played an essential role in early Slavic culture. [5] One early Russian object of worship was the "Moist Mother Earth", [2] [7] [8] and a later ...
The Evangelist John, a miniature from the Ostromir Gospel, mid-11th century. Old East Slavic literature, [1] also known as Old Russian literature, [2] [3] is a collection of literary works of Rus' authors, which includes all the works of ancient Rus' theologians, historians, philosophers, translators, etc., and written in Old East Slavic.
Consequently, the already existing biologo-genetic studies have made all hypotheses about the mixing of the Russians with non-Slavic ethnic groups or their "non-Slavism" obsolete or pseudoscientific. At the same time, the long-standing identification of the Northern Russian and Southern Russian ethnographic groups by ethnologists was confirmed.
References to the poem were made by various Russian composers. [28] The line "Farewell, unwashed Russia" is used in Nikolay Kolyada's play "Oginsky's Polonaise" (Russian: Полонез Огинского). [29] Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev in his 1995 article writes: "You were unwashed, and remain unwashed" referring to the first verse of the poem. [30]
Apollon Maykov was born into an artistic family. His father, Nikolay Maykov, was a painter, and in his later years an academic of the Imperial Academy of Arts.His mother, Yevgeniya Petrovna Maykova (née Gusyatnikova, 1803–1880), loved literature and later in life had some of her own poetry published. [1]
Russian literature; Serbian literature; Slovak literature; Slovene literature; Sorbian literature; Ukrainian literature; Outside the Russian literature and to an extent Serbian literature, Slavic literature has been described as generally neglected in English literature studies and reference works. [1]