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‘Mother Russia’ is one of the main symbols of national unity in Russian political culture, personifying the country and its people. The image is well known not only in Russia, but also...
The closest expression possible, which would literally mean ‘Mother Russia’, would be ‘Matushka Rossiya’ – but if you use it, you will sound like a 19th-century bearded patriot from the ...
Mother Russia has long been familiar as the standard English form of the personification called in Russian Матушка Россия (Россия-матушка, Мать-Россия, Матушка Русь); the use of родина 'motherland' is much less familiar to the English-speaking world and is also ambiguous.
As one stands on the summit of Mamayev Kurgan in the shadow of the gigantic statue of the motherland, one can feel the weight of all this history. It is oppressive even for a foreigner. But for many Russians this place is sacred. The word “Kurgan” in Russian means a tumulus or burial mound.
Mother Motherland (Ukrainian: Батьківщина-Мати, tr. Batʹkivshchyna-Maty, ‹See Tfd› Russian: Родина-мать, tr. Rodina-mat' ), now called Mother Ukraine, is a monumental statue in Kyiv that is a part of the Museum of The History of Ukraine in World War II.
31 sty 2014 · The project designer, Evgenii Viktorovich Vuchetich, was responsible for many post-World War II memorials in the Soviet sphere, including the Soviet Union's first major military memorial complex, a cemetery for the Red Army soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin.
20 lis 2018 · Once upon a time there lived a rich widow, with a beautiful face and vigorous body, not old and not young, by the name of Mother Russia. She had been married twice, the first time to the peasant- bogatyr Mikula Selianinovich, and the second to the no less renowned warrior- bogatyr Il'ia Muromets.
