Skomoroch
The Skomorochi ( Russian Скоморохи ), also Skomorochen , were medieval traveling folk entertainers who were actors, bear leaders , minstrels, tightrope walkers and jesters and performed hand puppet shows with Petrushka . Their performances were musically accompanied by bagpipes , drums and stringed instruments ( gusli , domra and hurdy-gurdy ).
The oldest news about Skoromorochi comes from the year 1068. In the 16th century the Skomorochi were settled in cities, in 1613 the Potjeschnaja Palata (about "amusement house") was built in Moscow . The Skomorochi were persecuted by the church and the state because of the blasphemy of God and rulers, disreputed as servants of Satan. In 1648 their appearances were banned by a ukase from the Tsar.
Skomorochi - Russian folk picture sheet ( Lubok )
Belarusian skomorochi
Painting by Franz Riss , 1857
literature
- Zguta Russell: Russian minstrels: A history of the Skomorokhi . University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 1978
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinhard Lauer : Brief history of Russian literature . CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2005, p. 36.