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The personification of Russia is traditionally feminine and most commonly maternal since medieval times. [1] Most common terms for national personification of Russia are: Mother Russia; Russian: Ма́тушка Росси́я, romanized: Matushka Rossiya ; also Russian: Мать-Росси́я, romanized: Mat'-Rossiya; or
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.
‘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 abroad.
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 ...
Russians don't have an expression with the same meaning. "Mother Russia" is a pure Western meme. What we have is "Родина" (Homeland or "country you come from and which is dear to you") and "Русь-матушка" (Rus'-mother), which is an obsolete expression that has an absolutely different meaning from "Mother Russia" meme.
A national personification of Russia as a woman, appearing in patriotic posters, statues, etc. (metonymically) Russia.
The word “Kurgan” in Russian means a tumulus or burial mound. This hill is an ancient site dedicated to a 14th century warlord, but in the wake of the greatest battle of the greatest war in history, it now carries a new symbolism.
