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Mother Motherland
Mother Motherland may refer to: * Personification of Russia * former name of the '' Mother Ukraine'' monument in Kyiv, Ukraine * Mother Motherland (Saint Petersburg) at the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery, Saint Petersburg * ''The Motherland Calls ''The Motherland Calls'' () is a colossal neoclassicism, neoclassicist and socialist realism, socialist realist war memorial sculpture on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, Russia. Designed primarily by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich with assistance fro ...'', monument in Volgograd, Russia called "Mother Motherland Calls" in Russian and colloquially known as "Mother Motherland" See also * {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Personification Of Russia
The personification of Russia is traditionally feminine and most commonly maternal since the Middle Ages. The common terms for the national personification of Russia are: * Mother Russia ( dim.); also ; or ; or * Homeland the Mother In the Russian language, the concept of motherland is rendered by two terms: * "place of birth", (feminine gender, ) * "fatherland", (masculine gender, ) Harald Haarmann and Orlando Figes see the goddess Mokosh a source of the "Mother Russia" concept. Mikhail Epstein states that Russia's historical reliance on agriculture supported a mythological view of the earth as a "divine mother", leading in turn to the terminology of "Mother Russia". Epstein also notes the feminine perceptions of the names Rus' and Rossiia, allowing for natural expressions of ''matushka Rossiia'' (Mother Russia). Usage During the Soviet period, the Bolsheviks extensively utilized the image of "Motherland", especially during World War II. File:Triple Entente.jpg, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mother Ukraine
''Mother Ukraine'' or ''Statue of Liberty'' ( ) is a monumental Soviet-era statue in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. The sculpture is a part of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War. In 2023, the Soviet heraldry was removed from the monument's shield and replaced with Ukraine's coat of arms, the ''tryzub''. Name The monument's initial name was the ''Mother Motherland'' (), which derives from Russian ''Mother Motherland'' (), a name for the national personification used by both Russia and the Soviet Union. Along with other monuments built across the USSR (e.g. ''The Motherland Calls'' in Volgograd), the statue originally symbolized Soviet victory in the Second World War. On 29 July 2023, amidst the removal of the Soviet heraldry from the monument, the director of the memorial complex Yuri Savchuk announced that it would be renamed to ''Mother Ukraine'', yet as of now no official decision by the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mother Motherland (Saint Petersburg)
Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery () is located in Saint Petersburg, on the Avenue of the Unvanquished (Проспект Непокорённых), dedicated mostly to the victims of the siege of Leningrad. On his first visit to Russia in 1993, US President Bill Clinton laid a wreath in commemoration of the victims' deaths and the US-Russian alliance in World War II. Memorial complex The memorial complex, designed by Alexander Vasiliev and Yevgeniy Levinson, was opened on May 9, 1960. About 420,000 civilians and 50,000 soldiers of the Leningrad Front were buried in 186 mass graves. Near the entrance an eternal flame is located. A marble plate affirms that from September 4, 1941 to January 22, 1944 107,158 air bombs were dropped on the city, 148,478 shells were fired, 16,744 men died, 33,782 were wounded and 641,803 died of starvation. The center of the architectural composition is the bronze monument symbolizing the Personification of Russia, Mother Motherland, by sculptors Vera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
