scholarly journals Oriental Elements of Russian Folk Speech and Folklore

Al-Farabi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 42-56
Author(s):  
I. Pascai ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Investigation ◽  
Scientific Investigation ◽  
Volga Basin ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Russian People ◽  
Parallel Structures

This study analyses the Eastern character of the Russian folklanguage and folklore which connected whith the character of national mentality. The cultural contacts of Russian people with the Turkish and Finno-Ugrian people in the Volga basin were presented by N. S.Troubetzkoy (1927) who formed the new theory-from Russian culture. Our scientific investigation of the Russian folklanguage and folklore is motivated by the works, which demonstrated the insufficiency of this domain. The results of our comparative investigation prove the Eastern traits of Russian folklanguage and folklore, namely, we discovered the parallel structures in the Eastern languages and folklore.

Historiosophy of N.Ya. Danilevsky

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 13-17
Author(s):  
Victor V. Aksyuchits
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
World History ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Russian People ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time

According to the author of the article, N.Ya. Danilevsky anticipated a lot of ideas of the 20th century, in particular those of O. Spengler and A. Toynbee, by offering his concept of cultural and historical types in the book “Russia and Europe”. At the same time N.Ya. Danilevsky was in many aspects the follower of Slavophils while interpreting the originality of Russian people and Russian culture. After the turn of the educated society circles to Russian national self-comprehension initiated by Slavophils, N.Ya. Danilevsky not only scientifically formulated the problems brought forth by the Slavophils, but also offered for the first time the resolution of new important questions by analyzing the world history and the history of Slavic peoples. The author especially stresses the role of N.Ya. Danilevsky in creating the historiosophic concept that forestalled the epoch for many decades.

The History and Culture of Galician Rus’ as Viewed by Galician-Russian Enlighteners and National Activists in the 20th Century

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 349-358
Author(s):  
Kirill V. Shevchenko
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Russian History ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Organic Part ◽  
Russian People ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Russian Literary ◽  
Russian Intelligentsia ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
First World

The article analyzes the views of the leading Galician-Russian socio-public and cultural activists of the 19th century on the history and culture of Galician Rus. Most Galician-Russian intelligentsia of the 19th century shared the idea of Galician Rusyns being an inseparable and organic part of the triune Russian people consisting of Great Russians, Little Russians and White Russians. Galician Rusyns were considered by Galician-Russian intelligentsia as a kinship branch of Little Russian people. Galician-Russian cultural figures stressed the primordial tradition of cultural and historical unity of all Russian lands as well as the important role of Galicia in common Russian history. Thus, they considered the native of Galicia Metropolitan Peter to be one of the major figures in mutual Russian history as he supported the policy of Moscow Prince Ivan Kalita and played the crucial role in turning Moscow into the church capital of Russian lands in early 14thcentury. Moreover, the Galicians and Little Russians by birth played very important role in developing Russian culture, education and public thought in the period of the 17th –19th centuries. Traditional orientation of Galician-Russian intelligentsia on Russian culture and Russian literary language in the 19th century was strongly opposed by the representatives of the Ukrainian movement, which supported the idea of Galician Rusyns being a part of the Ukrainians, not belonging to Russian nationality. Due to political reasons, Ukrainian movement was widely supported by Austrian and Polish authorities, who used the First World War as a suitable pretext for mass repressions against the representatives of Galician-Russian movement in Galician region.

Russian Salvation: From Jokes to Jesus

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-347
Author(s):  
Larisa Levicheva
Keyword(s):  
Contextual Theology ◽  
Evangelical Christians ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Russian People ◽  
The Bible

This article highlights the development of a contextual theology among Russian Evangelical Christians. The prevalence of jokes in Russian culture makes humor an easy entrée into constructing a Russian local theology. The author proposes a process through which humor can be used as a way to make the Bible more relevant and more effective to the Russian people.

scholarly journals Manipulation of meanings as a method of transformation of people’s consciousness in the context of anglo-saxon imfluence an globalization changes in education

2019 ◽  
pp. 84-90
Author(s):  
Tatyana Yurievna Zhikhareva
Keyword(s):  
Educational Policy ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Russian People ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The Impact

This article is devoted to such a burning problem as the impact of globalization changes on traditional cultural values, in particular on education, on teaching of the native language. We are trying to show how American civilization transforms the consciousness of Russians, planting concepts alien to the Russian culture that are expressed in language borrowings in many areas. This is clearly seen in the transformation of meanings, namely, in the replacement of words with native Russian roots for transliterated Anglo-American concepts. As a result, the foreign mentality invades the cultural space of Russian people, displaces the original concepts, preventing even an adequate translation of the borrowed concepts into Russian, which is observed not only in business or politics, but also in education. This process, we believe, is not objective, independent of the subjects. It reflects the advance of Anglo-American ideology and aims at a radical restructuring of the consciousness of the Russian people, the transformation of the Russian people into a mass without traditions, without moral values, without language. As a counteraction to the process of colonization of consciousness, we propose the implementation of a national-oriented educational policy, which will allow instilling in young generations the values rooted in the national culture

scholarly journals CONCEPT “RUSSIAN CHARACTER” IN THE REPRESENTATION OF RUSSIAN-SPEAKING REPRESENTATIVES OF CHINESE LINGUOCULTURE

2020 ◽  
pp. 63-69
Author(s):  
Наталья Валерьевна Деева ◽  
Елена Евгеньевна Рыбникова
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Field Structure ◽  
Character Traits ◽  
General Direction ◽  
Chinese Youth ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Russian People ◽  
Key Features ◽  
The Mind

Введение. Выявление и описание особенностей национального характера, специфики его репрезентации представителями иной культуры входят в круг исследований ряда гуманитарных наук. В лингвистике анализ модели концепта какого-либо национального характера, описание стереотипов, лежащих в основе его формирования, являются ключом доступа к культурно детерминированной информации, хранящейся в сознании представителей определенной лингвокультуры. Подобного рода исследования имеют также и практическую значимость: построение успешных моделей в сфере межкультурной коммуникации невозможно без учета того, что думают, как оценивают представители одной культуры представителей другой. Материал и методы. Материалом исследования послужили языковые реакции, полученные в ходе свободного ассоциативного эксперимента, проведенного с китайскими студентами из Чанчуньского государственного педагогического университета, обучающимися в Кемеровском государственном институте культуры, а так-же результаты анкетирования, позволяющие судить о степени сформированности представлений о России и русских людях у данных представителей китайской лингвокультуры. Результаты и обсуждение. Модель концепта «русский характер», существующая в сознании китайских студентов, говорящих на русском языке, представляет собой полевую структуру (с ядерной и периферийной зонами). Основными чертами характера русского человека представителями китайской лингвокультуры были названы открытость, жизнерадостность, смелость, искренность и др. При этом ядерную зону концепта «русский характер» формируют исключительно положительные качества и черты характера русских людей, такие как открытость, терпеливость, независимость и др., а зона ближней и дальней периферии представлена как положительными (дружелюбность, ответственность, активность), так и отрицательными качествами и чертами характера (эгоистичность, грубость, пессимизм). Всего было выделено 22 признака, которые китайские респонденты приписывают русскому человеку и его характеру. Заключение. Представленные в структуре анализируемого концепта признаки и их перераспределение позволяют сделать вывод о том, что образ русских людей, их характер в сознании студентов из Китая сформированы в большей мере в положительном ключе. Introduction. The purpose of the article is to describe the model of the concept “Russian character”, presented in the mind of Chinese youth who speak Russian, by analyzing its lexical representatives identified by dint of a psycholinguistic experiment. Material and methods. The material of the study was the language reactions received during free associative experiment, which was held with 60 Chinese students. The analysis of the signs that form the structure of the concept “Russian character”, which exists in the consciousness of representatives of Chinese linguoculture, through its verbal objectivization, allows us to see the specifics of perception of representatives of Russian culture by representatives of Chinese, to evaluate the general direction of assessment of Russian by members of another ethnic group. Results and discussion. During the associative experiment representatives of Chinese culture were asked to answer the questions: “What kind of associations do you have when you hear the phrase “Russian character?”, “What kind is a Russian character?”. The analysis of the data obtained through this experiment allowed to pick out 22 character traits attributed by Chinese to Russian people. According to respondents, the key features of the Russian character are openness, cheerfulness, boldness, sincerity, etc. A smaller percentage of respondents (46.7 and 20, respectively) indicated that hardiness and responsibility are typical traits of a Russian person. 1.6 % of respondents think that straightforwardness, dexterity, enthusiasm are characteristics of Russians. Respondents also noted negative character traits of the Russian person. 26.6% of respondents call Russians selfish, 20 % – rude, 13.4 % – irresponsible, 6.7 % – lazy, greedy, etc. Thus, the model of the concept “Russian character”, existing in the consciousness of Chinese students who speak Russian, is a field structure (with nuclear and peripheral zones). The nuclear zone of the concept “Russian character” is formed by only positive qualities and character traits of Russian people, such as openness, patience, independence, etc., and the zones of the near and far periphery are presented as positive (friendliness, responsibility, activity), as well as negative qualities and character traits (selfishness, rudeness, pessimism). Conclusion. In general, the highlighted signs and their redistribution in the structure of the concept “Russian character” allow to conclude that the image of Russian people and their character in the consciousness of students from China are formed in a positive way.

ARCHITECTURAL APPEARANCE OF THE FORTRESSES OF THE RUSSIAN NORTH

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-44
Author(s):  
E. Shopina ◽  
M. Markova ◽  
A. Blagireva
Keyword(s):  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Russian People ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Russian North ◽  
Historical Role

Russian defense architecture, characterized by its uniqueness, is a heritage of Russian culture, includes images of towers and walls, and embodies the embodiment of progressive ideas of the Russian people, their traditional views, labor and heroic deeds. Elements of fortifications have their own distinctive features and are divided depending on them into types and types. The object of the study is the features of structures, distinctive features, functionality and device of defense structures of the Russian North. As a result of the study, the authors conclude that the historical role of fortifications in the Russian North lies in its influence on the architectural heritage of Russia. According to the authors, the influence of defense architecture found its distribution on other types of buildings and was directly dependent on the climatic conditions of the northern terrain. Fortifications played an important role in the defense of the Russian state and the formation of the outlines of the cities of the Russian North.

Decadent truncation: liberated Eros in Arthur Vincent Lourié's The Blackamoor of Peter the Great

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-213
Author(s):  
KLÁRA MÓRICZ
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Russian History ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Silver Age ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Russian People ◽  
Peter The Great ◽  
The Erotic ◽  
Musical Forms

AbstractRussian composer Arthur Vincent Lourié (1881/2–1966) dedicated his The Blackamoor of Peter the Great (1948–1961), an opera based on Pushkin's story about the poet's African great-grandfather, to ‘Russian culture, the Russian people and Russian history.’ Neoclassical in its subject matter, reliance on conventional musical forms, and adherence to tonality, Lourié's Blackamoor is nevertheless also an exemplary symbolist opera. This article explains three symbolist aspects of the work: the sources of its libretto (Lourié's librettist Irina Graham interspersed the libretto with symbolist texts), its multi-layered cultural associations, and Lourié's decision to liberate and embody the erotic drive of the main character Ibrahim by representing it as the figure of Eros. Eradicated during the years of Stalinist terror, the culture of Silver Age Russia thus continued to find a voice in the emigrant Lourié's last opera.

scholarly journals Nomad traits in the character of Russians in the sphere of spirit and in material production

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 257-267
Author(s):  
Rustem R. Vakhitov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Russian People ◽  
Material Production ◽  
Material Basis ◽  
Economic Practices ◽  
State Of Affairs

The perception of the Russian people as settled is widespread among the Russian intelli­gentsia. However, many figures of Russian culture (from I.S. Aksakov to A.M. Gorky) noted the similarity of the Russian character with the character of nomadic peoples. In their opinion, Russians are also characterized by the desire to wander, the search for a better life, and in the spiritual sphere – dissatisfaction with the existing state of affairs, the search for higher ideals. Our article suggests that these features should be consistent in the material basis, in the sphere of material production, in the economic practices of the Russian people (Great Russians) at different stages of its history. Indeed, even V.O. Klyuchevsky pointed out that during the formation of the Great Russian (Russian ethnos), colonists from the south, who found themselves in the interfluve of the Volga and Oka rivers, used nomadic, slash-and-burn agriculture. This influenced the character of the Russian people. In the twentieth century, the creator of socio-natural history ES Kulpin-Gubaidullin developed these ideas, characterizing Russian civilization as combining the features of sedentary, statist (China) and nomadic (Turan). Sociologist Y.M. Plyusnin showed how great is the role of otkhodnik in the economic practices of the Russian people up to the present. Thus, there is serious evidence for the thesis that there is a kinship between the worldview and values of the Russian and nomadic peoples, as pointed out by both the Slavophiles and the Eurasians. Similar tendencies are present in the material production of the Russian peo­ple, both in the Middle Ages and in modern and contemporary times. One may disagree with Marxism that material production is primary, and spiritual culture is secondary, but the existence of a correlation between the material and the spiritual in society is an im­mutable truth discovered by Marxism. Using his methods allows you to better understand the origins of the values of Russian culture. This also makes it possible to explain the phe­nomenon of complementarity between the Slavic and Turanian cultures of Eurasia.

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