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Mother Motherland (Pavlovsk)
Mother Motherland or Mother Fatherland may refer to: * Personification of Russia * former name of the '' Mother Ukraine'' monument in Kyiv, Ukraine See also * '' The Motherland Calls'', monument in Volgograd, Russia {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Personification Of Russia
The personification of Russia is traditionally feminine and most commonly maternal since medieval times. Most common terms for national personification of Russia are: *Mother Russia (russian: Матушка Россия, tr. ''Matushka Rossiya'', "Mother Russia"; also, , tr. ''Rossiya-matushka'', "Russia the Mother", , tr. ''Mat'-Rossiya'', , 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: "" ( tr. ''rodina''), literally, "place of birth" and "" ( tr. ''otchizna''), literally "fatherland". Harald Haarmann and Orlando Figes see the goddess Mokosh a source of the "Mother Russia" concept. Usage During the October Revolution and the Russian Civil War, the image was in the propaganda of the supporters of the White movement, which interpreted the struggle against the Bolsheviks as a battle with "aliens" who were "oppressors of Mothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mother Ukraine
''Mother Ukraine'' ( uk, Україна-Мати, translit=Ukraína-Máty ) is a monumental Soviet Union, Soviet-era statue in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. The sculpture is a part of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War. In 2023, the State Emblem of the Soviet Union, Soviet heraldry was Decommunization in Ukraine, removed from the monument's shield and replaced with Ukraine's coat of arms, the Coat of arms of Ukraine, ''tryzub''. Name The monument's initial name was the ''Mother Motherland'' ( uk, Батьківщина-мати, translit=Batkivshchýna-máty), which derives from Russian ''Mother Motherland'' (russian: Родина-мать, translit=Rodina-mat'), a name for the national personification used by both Russia and the Soviet Union. Along with other monuments built across the USSR (e.g. ''The Motherland Calls'' in Volgograd, Russia), the statue originally symbolized Soviet victory in the Second World War. On 29 July 2023, amidst the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
