mother Russia
Mother Russia on wax medallion People's Militia (Народное ополчение) by artist Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy , 1816
Mother Russia ( Russian Матушка Россия ) is - next to the Russian bear - the national personification of Russia and was already used in Russian tsarism . The metaphor is also used in today's Russia. The symbolization Mother Russia symbolizes the “spirit of the collective” in culture or in the nation . After the reorganization of the Russian tsarist empire into the multi-ethnic state of the Soviet Union , the allegory of Mother Russia was converted into Mother Homeland by Soviet propaganda . In honor of the Soviet armed forces, several statues were erected that depict the mother country .
Mother Russia in culture
- Mother Russia is named a song from the album No Prayer for the Dying by the group Iron Maiden .
- Mother Russia is a song by the group Renaissance .
- Mother Russia is a song from the album Floodland by the group The Sisters of Mercy .
- Mother Russia is a song from the album Veni Vidi Vici by Nachtmahr .
Statues of Mother Homeland
- Colossal statue in Volgograd
- Colossal statue in Kiev
- Statue in the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery in Saint Petersburg
- Statue on the Soviet War Memorial in the Schönholzer Heide in Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1914 RUSSIA FOR THE TRUTH ( Memento from December 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: digitalpostercollection.com
- ^ Nira Yuval-Davis: Gender and Nation. SAGE, 1997, ISBN 978-1-446-24077-9 , p. 45 ( limited preview in Google book search).
Web links
Commons : Mother Russia - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
