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Post by sarmat on Jul 12, 2008 22:52:59 GMT 3
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Jul 13, 2008 14:47:36 GMT 3
That's so cool and interesting, thanx  |
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Post by keaganjoelbrewer on Nov 26, 2008 7:10:53 GMT 3
The musical Prince Igor by Borodin is based on a Russian epic. This epic is very problematic itself, but it does have quite a bit to do with Prince Igor fighting people from the Western steppe. It was supposedly written in the 12th century, but there are some problems which are very interesting.
There is only one manuscript for the Prince Igor story, and the man who 'discovered' it during the time of Tsarina Catherine the Great was known to have forged some other documents. Sounds very suspicious?
Some people believe that it is an attempt at giving legitimacy to Russian nationalism by giving Russia a national story.
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Post by sarmat on Nov 26, 2008 19:01:55 GMT 3
This assesment doesn't make much sense. The main theme of "The word about the Igor's regiment" (it sounds like this if you literally traslate it from Russian) is the defeat of Igor's army at the hands of Cumans which meat a great tragedy for the Russian land. It's actually quite pessimistic and doesn't promote "legitimacy of the Russian nationalism" especially as it was viewed in the time of Catherine the Great.
By contrast it's even possible that the chronicle was written by a Cuman as linguistic research shows.
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