Mother Motherland (Pavlovsk)
Mother Motherland or Mother Fatherland may refer to: * Personification of Russia * former name of the '' Mother Ukraine'' monument in Kyiv, Ukraine See also * ''The Motherland Calls ''The Motherland Calls'' ( rus, Родина-мать зовёт!, Rodina-mat' zovyot!, t=Homeland-Mother Is Calling!) is the compositional centre of the monument-ensemble "Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad" on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, R ...

Personification Of Russia
The personification of Russia is traditionally feminine and most commonly maternal since medieval times. Most common terms for national personification of Russia are: *Mother Russia (russian: Матушка Россия, Romanization of Russian, tr. ''Matushka Rossiya'', "Mother Russia"; also, , tr. ''Rossiya-matushka'', "Russia the Mother", , tr. ''Mat'-Rossiya'', , tr. ''Matushka Rus' '', "Mother Rus' "), *Homeland the Mother (russian: Родина-мать, Romanization of Russian, tr. ''Rodina-mat' ''). In the Russian language, the concept of motherland is rendered by two terms: "" (Romanization of Russian, tr. ''rodina''), literally, "place of birth" and "" (Romanization of Russian, tr. ''otchizna''), literally "fatherland". Harald Haarmann and Orlando Figes see the goddess Mokosh a source of the "Mother Russia" concept. Usage During the October Revolution and the Russian Civil War, the image was in the propaganda of the supporters of the White movement, which interpret ...
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Mother Ukraine
''Mother Ukraine'' ( uk, Україна-Мати, translit=Ukraína-Máty ) 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'' ( uk, Батьківщина-мати, translit=Batkivshchýna-máty), which derives from Russian ''Mother Motherland'' (russian: Родина-мать, translit=Rodina-mat'), 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, Russia), 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 Savchu ...
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