Various stories from Russia.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20060901063943/http://palimpsest.lss.wisc.edu/%7Ecreeca/ -- Russian history
- Old warrior-culture traditions
- serving as imperial bodyguards
- Hired as mercenaries
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ww2
- Stenka Razin was a Cossack leader who led a major uprising against the Russian government.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20080213140207/http://user.aol.com/MHoll/Tales/RussianFolktalePage.html
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Dmitri Donskoi is famous for leading the first Russian military victory over the Mongols at the Battle of Kulikovo
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Vladimir I of Kiev -- the grand prince of Kiev who converted to Christianity in 988, and proceeded to baptise the whole Kievan Rus.
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Boris and Gleb, martyrs who have had several churches dedicated to them.
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Alexander Nevsky rose to legendary status because of his great military victories. The Neva battle of 1240 saved Russia from a full-scale enemy invasion from the North. As a result of this battle, Alexander was given the name of “Nevsky” (which means of Neva).
- Alexander Nevsky (film) - directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev.
- Sikorsky Alexander Nevsky was a bomber plane.
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Prince Andrei Bogoliubsky?
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Ivan IV of Russia (Ivan the Terrible)
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Yermak Timofeyevich -- His exploration of Siberia marked the beginning of the expansion of Russia towards this region and its colonization.
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Yemelyan Pugachev was a pretender to the Russian throne who led a great Cossack insurrection during the reign of Catherine II. Alexander Pushkin wrote a remarkable history of the rebellion; and he recounted some of the events in his novel Captain's Daughter (1836).
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- Sikorsky Ilya Muromets was a bomber plane.
The three heroes (I think) were:
- Ilya Muromets
- Dobrynya Nikitich
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Alyosha Popovich
- Ilya and the other two: https://web.archive.org/web/20110517141721/http://www.museum.murom.ru/wwwmus/history/xa-xa.htm
- They are presented together in Viktor Vasnetsov's 1898 painting Bogatyrs.
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Nightingale the Robber - also known as Solovey Odikhmantievich (Соловей Одихмантьевич) -- Russian epic robber
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Svyatogor - mythical hero
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Bylina - Folk epic poems
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There were also warriors within the Christian-orthodox monks, because a lot of the professional soldiers stayed in the monastery after their service and dedicated themselves to god and church. Some of them got back to weapons in heavy war times to protect their country. The most famous Russian war monks are Peresvet und Oslyab.
- Oslyabya was the name of a battleship, lost in the Battle of Tsushima.
- Aleksandr Peresvet and Andrei Oslyab
To the monk Sergei, as to an inexhaustible font of spiritual prayer and grace of the Lord, at all times came in veneration thousands of the people -- for edification and for prayers, for help and for healing. And each of those having recourse with faith to his wonderworking relics he heals and renews, fills with power and with faith, transforms and guides upwards with his light-bearing spirituality.
But it was not only spiritual gifts and graced healings bestown to all, approaching with faith the relics of the Monk Sergei; to him likewise was given by God the grace to defend against enemies of the Russian land. The monk by his prayers was with the army of Dimitrii Donskoi at the Battle of Kulikovo Pole ("Field"), -- he even blessed to go to the military effort his own monks, Aleksandr Peresvet and Andrei Oslyab. He directed Ivan the Terrible the place for erection of the fortress of Sviyazhsk and helped in the victory over Kazan. During the time of the Polish incursion the Monk Sergei appeared in a dream to the Nizhni Novgorod citizen Kozma Minin, ordering him to gather funds and equip an army for the liberation of Moscow and the Russian realm. And when in 1612 after a molieben to the Holy Trinity the militia of Minin and Pozharsky moved on towards Moscow, a propitious breeze fluttered the Orthodox standards, "as though from the grave of the Wonderworker Sergei himself".
Resources ∞
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Russka - (1991 book), by Edward Rutherfurd
- Historical fiction, like Sarum.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20080213140207/http://user.aol.com/MHoll/Tales/RussianFolktalePage.html
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https://web.archive.org/web/20090423122312/https://www.sunbirds.com/readings/index.shtml
Last updated 2020-06-27 at 18:01:56
My note for Saint Demetrios (Demetrius of Thessaloniki) is from 2005-07-21 or earlier.
This general project is from 2005-07-31 or earlier. Probably from 2005-07-21 or earlier because of the note on Saint Demetrios (Demetrius of Thessaloniki), though that was housed in a separate note.
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