scholarly journals IRANIAN EPIC MOTIVES IN “TARAS BULBA” BY NIKOLAY GOGOL

Kavkaz-forum ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
К.Ю. РАХНО
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
Specific Nature ◽  
Epic Tradition ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Military Campaigns ◽  
Similar Description

Статья посвящена анализу фольклорно-эпических мотивов иранского происхождения, которые наличествуют в исторической повести «Тарас Бульба» Николая Гоголя. Они обнаруживают параллели как в нартовском эпосе осетин, так и в поэме Фирдоуси «Шахнаме», сказаниях таджиков Систана и татов Дагестана. Делается вывод, что сюжет и многие детали этой знаменитой повести, как и многих других произведений Гоголя, отражают эпическую традицию ираноязычного населения причерноморских степей, которое стало этническим субстратом украинцев. Первым на данную параллель указал Василий Иванович Абаев, сравнивая описания повседневности запорожских казаков, как это имеет место в произведении Н.В. Гоголя «Тарас Бульба», с аналогичным описанием образа жизни нартов в нартовском эпосе. Описываемая повседневность включает в себя не только практику военных походов, но и веселья, включая специфический характер песен, танцев, системы ценностей, языческого мировоззрения. В качестве сравнительного материала автором привлекаются ритуальные пляски массагетов в описании Геродота, а также саков в описании Страбона. Проводится параллель между гоголевским Тарасом Бульбой и иранскими эпическими героями – нартом Батрадзом, Рустамом из поэмы Фирдоуси «Шахнамэ». Схожие черты выявляются в зоонимике, связанной с потусторонними силами, в характере казни убийц, в отношении к данному слову и реакции последствий за его нарушение. Несомненно, в повести отражены древние эпические мотивы степей Причерноморья, восходящие к ираноязычным кочевникам, позже ассимилированных славянами. Они обнаруживают параллели как в нартовском эпосе осетин, имеющем скифские и сармато-аланские корни, так и в персидском литературном эпосе, преданиях систанцев, сказках татов, имеющих отношение к южноиранской эпической традиции, возможно, имеющей скифо-сакские истоки. The article is devoted to the analysis of folklore-epic motifs of Iranian origin, which can be traced in the historical novel “Taras Bulba” by Nikolay Gogol. They find parallels both in the Narts’ epos of the Ossetians, and in Firdousi’s poem “Shahname”, the tales of Tajik Sistans and the Tats of Dagestan. It is concluded that the plot and many details of this famous story, like many other works by Gogol, reflect the epic tradition of the Iranian-speaking population of the Black Sea steppes, which has become the ethnic substrate of the Ukrainians. The first to point to this parallel was Vasily Ivanovich Abaev, comparing the descriptions of the everyday life of the Zaporozhye Cossacks, as is the case in the work of N.V. Gogol's "Taras Bulba", with a similar description of the lifestyle of the Narts in the Nart epic. The described everyday life includes not only the practice of military campaigns, but also fun, including the specific nature of songs, dances, a system of values, a pagan worldview. As a comparative material, the author uses the ritual dances of the Massagets in the description of Herodotus, as well as the Saka in the description of Strabo. A parallel is drawn between Gogol's Taras Bulba and Iranian epic heroes - Nart Batradz, Rustam from Firdousi’s poem “Shahname”. Similar features are revealed in the zoonymy associated with otherworldly forces, in the nature of the execution of murderers, in relation to this word and the reaction of the consequences for its violation. Undoubtedly, the story reflects the ancient epic motifs of the steppes of the Black Sea, dating back to the Iranian-speaking nomads, later assimilated by the Slavs. They find parallels both in the Nartian Ossetian epos, which has Scythian and Sarmatian-Alanian roots, and in the Persian literary epos, the traditions of the Sistans, and tales of the Tats, related to the South Iranian epic tradition, possibly having Scythian-Saka sources.

Synagogue as Infrastructure in Everyday Life of Batumi Jewish Community

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 323-338
Author(s):  
Nino Abakelia
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
Sacred Place ◽  
Black Sea Region ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
And Function

Abstract The subject under scrutiny is Sephardic and Ashkenazi synagogues in Batumi (the Black Sea Region of Georgia) that reveal both universal and culturally specific forms. The paper is based on ethnographic data gathered during fieldwork in Batumi, in 2019, and on the theoretical postulates of anthropology of infrastructure. The article argues that the Batumi synagogues could be viewed and understood as ‘infrastructure’ in their own right, as they serve as objects through which other objects, people, and ideas operate and function as a system. The paper attempts to demonstrate how the sacred edifices change their trajectory according to modern conditions and how the sacred place is inserted and coexists inside a network of touristic infrastructure.

Wave energy potential and variability for the south west coasts of the Black Sea: The WEB-based wave energy atlas

2020 ◽  
Vol 154 ◽  
pp. 136-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bilal Bingölbali ◽  
Halid Jafali ◽  
Adem Akpınar ◽  
Serkan Bekiroğlu
Keyword(s):  
Black Sea ◽  
Wave Energy ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
Energy Potential ◽  
Web Based ◽  
South West ◽  
The Web

scholarly journals The first unified inventory of non-native fishes of the South Caucasian countries, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia

2021 ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Tatia Kuljanishvili ◽  
Levan Mumladze ◽  
Bella Japoshvili ◽  
Namig Mustafayev ◽  
Shaig Ibrahimov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Sea ◽  
Fish Species ◽  
Caspian Sea ◽  
Native Species ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Native Fish ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Native Fishes

The South Caucasus (SC) region is recognized for its high biological diversity and various endemic animal taxa. The area has experienced many fish introductions over the years, but the overall information about non-native fishes in the three SC countries, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia did not exist. Although these three countries belong to the Kura River drainage, Caspian Sea basin (only the western half of Georgia drains into the Black Sea), the legislative framework for each country regarding introduction of non-native fish species and their treatment is different and poorly developed. The goal of the present study was to make an initial inventory of non-native fish species in the three SC countries, and summarize the existing knowledge as a basis for future risk assessment models and formulation of regional management policies. Here, we present a unified list of 27 non-native species recorded in the wild in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Among these 27 species, eight were translocated from the Black Sea basin to the Caspian Sea basin. Out of these 27 non-native fishes, 15 species have become established (three of them being considered invasive) and six fish species could not survive in the wild.

scholarly journals Experiencing Europeanization in the Black Sea and South Caucasus

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Reisner
Keyword(s):  
Black Sea ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Governance Reform ◽  
European Studies ◽  
The South ◽  
South Caucasus ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Norm Diffusion ◽  
The Eu

The book series European Studies in the Caucasus offers innovative perspectives on regional studies of the Caucasus. By embracing the South Caucasus as well as Turkey and Russia, it moves away from a traditional viewpoint of European Studies that considers the countries of the region as objects of Europeanization. This second volume demonstrates this by looking into forms of inter-regionalism in the Black Sea–South Caucasus area in fields of economic cooperation, Europeanization of energy and environmental policies, discussing how the region is addressed in the elaboration of a new German Eastern Policy. In the section on norm diffusion, the contributors assess the normative power strategy of the EU and its paradoxes in the region, its impact on civil society development in Armenia, and democracy promotion in Georgia. In the section on legal approximation, issues of a global climate change regime and competition law in Georgia as well as penitentiary governance reform in the South Caucasus according to EU standards and policies are analyzed. All contributions also review regional or local contestations for the topics discussed here.

Settlement of early Byzantine time at the Kyz-Aul necropolis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Н.Ф. Федосеев ◽  
Л.Ю. Пономарев
Keyword(s):  
Black Sea ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Living Room ◽  
The South ◽  
Kerch Peninsula ◽  
Black Sea Coast ◽  
The Village ◽  
Sea Coast ◽  
Early Byzantine

Necropolis Kyz-Aul is located on the Black Sea coast, 1 km to the south-east of the village. Yakovenkovo. In 1930, 1979–1983, 1985, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2005–2006, 2015–2017, he was investigated by Yu. Martti, O. Chevelev, N. Sudarev and N. Fedoseev. Separate burials date back to the II–I BC, the burial of the I–III AD the most recent burials, apparently, were committed in the IV–V AD. In the VI – third quarter of the VII century AD on the territory of the already abandoned necropolis, a small settlement was located. Its cultural stratum is traced on all sites that have been followed in the last decade. As living quarters, the looted crypts of the 1st–3rd centuries AD were adapted, consisting of one or two funerary cells and built of massive blocks of limestone (№ 6, 7, 9, 10). With exception of the crypts of the poorly preserved pit of the semidugout (?) other residential and household buildings on the necropolis could not be fixed. One child burial also belongs to the same period. The most well-preserved living room in the crypt number 6. In one of its funerary cells housed five household pits and heating devices, including a fireplace, reminiscent of the design of the fireplace. In the other crypts, the interior details of the “underground” dwellings have not been preserved. In the “Khazar” time burial chamber crypts were adapted for the maintenance of small cattle. The time of the early Byzantine settlement on the necropolis dates numerous finds of amphorae. The upper date was determined thanks to the coin of 674 Constantine IV Pogonat. In addition, a ring with the image of an archangel was found, an analogy of which is known in the burial complexes of the 7th century. Unfortunately, the area and location of the necropolis of this settlement is not yet established. Cannot be reconstructed and its layout. It is difficult to reconstruct the interior of the “underground” dwellings themselves, since the crypts were reused in the “Khazar” period. In addition, no other settlements of this time were found on the ancient necropolises of the Kerch Peninsula

scholarly journals Building a Ukrainian Identity in Odessa: Negotiation of Markers and Informal Nationalism

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Abel Polese
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Language Education ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
National Narratives ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Way

A large and established body of literature on nation building in post-socialist spaces has initially put emphasis on state-centred construction of identity references and markers such as language, education or institutions and governance. In contrast, a recent stream of scholarship has attempted to bring agency into identity debates to propose new tools and approaches that can be used in the study of identity construction. This article is a further exploration of the latter position. It looks at the way identities are constructed, and renegotiated, at the everyday level, by ordinary people, by illustrating the competition between Russian and Ukrainian languages in Odessa, a Ukrainian city on the Black sea, to look at the synergy generated by the competition between local and national narratives.

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