Russian heroes
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Russian heroes
14.99 €
Historical monuments - legends, tales, chronicles, ancient Russian literature - these are the sources by which we learn about the fate of the Russian people in their early age, they help us understand what they were like before.
Our Russian life was formed relatively recently - in the history of mankind, a millennium is like a year - but we are also rich in monuments of folk life, and we have ancient oral and written literature. We offer readers a piece of this folk wealth in a free retelling...
When reading epics, we should not imagine the bogatyrs as real people who once lived. Bogatyrs are the personification of an entire era of folk life, features of folk art that have survived and reached us in the form in which the people created them. In the images of bogatyrs, we see what the people loved and what they hated, we see the people themselves with their good and bad qualities. In the epic paintings, everyday, local color is maintained, everything fantastic is banished, everything that could give an incorrect idea of ancient life. Epics are not fairy tales, and to depict the heroes as fairy-tale knights would mean to distort the meaning and deep significance embedded in them for the study of the ancient life of the people...
O. I. Rogova (Schmidt-Moskvitinova)
To times long past, to a very special world - the world of knights and bogatyrs, unheard of heroic deeds, mighty forces that know no restraint, the ancient songs sung by the people, the so-called epics, take us.
The people themselves in time immemorial composed these amazing songs-tales about Russian heroes and knights of the hoary, distant past. And these tales passed from mouth to mouth, from old people to children, artlessly passing on ancient stories to each new generation. There were — because the people believe in the existence of heroes in the past, believe that everything that is told really happened. Historical records and chronicles have preserved much that indicates that some events that have become epics really happened, only the people remade these tales in their own way, embellished and exaggerated them...
A bylina is the people themselves with all their dark and bright sides; a bylina is the life of Rus' itself, and this life is depicted in songs from all sides, with all the details of the domestic, military and court environment...
N. A. Nadezhdin
The collection includes selected bylinas from the books by O. I. Rogova (Schmidt-Moskvitinova) "Russian heroes" (1912) and N. A. Nadezhdin "Bogatyrs and knights of the Russian land" (1911). The collection is decorated with 150 illustrations and design elements by artists N. A. Bogatov, P. Gilev, N. N. Karazin, E. K. Sokolovsky, A. Morozov and others.
Our Russian life was formed relatively recently - in the history of mankind, a millennium is like a year - but we are also rich in monuments of folk life, and we have ancient oral and written literature. We offer readers a piece of this folk wealth in a free retelling...
When reading epics, we should not imagine the bogatyrs as real people who once lived. Bogatyrs are the personification of an entire era of folk life, features of folk art that have survived and reached us in the form in which the people created them. In the images of bogatyrs, we see what the people loved and what they hated, we see the people themselves with their good and bad qualities. In the epic paintings, everyday, local color is maintained, everything fantastic is banished, everything that could give an incorrect idea of ancient life. Epics are not fairy tales, and to depict the heroes as fairy-tale knights would mean to distort the meaning and deep significance embedded in them for the study of the ancient life of the people...
O. I. Rogova (Schmidt-Moskvitinova)
To times long past, to a very special world - the world of knights and bogatyrs, unheard of heroic deeds, mighty forces that know no restraint, the ancient songs sung by the people, the so-called epics, take us.
The people themselves in time immemorial composed these amazing songs-tales about Russian heroes and knights of the hoary, distant past. And these tales passed from mouth to mouth, from old people to children, artlessly passing on ancient stories to each new generation. There were — because the people believe in the existence of heroes in the past, believe that everything that is told really happened. Historical records and chronicles have preserved much that indicates that some events that have become epics really happened, only the people remade these tales in their own way, embellished and exaggerated them...
A bylina is the people themselves with all their dark and bright sides; a bylina is the life of Rus' itself, and this life is depicted in songs from all sides, with all the details of the domestic, military and court environment...
N. A. Nadezhdin
The collection includes selected bylinas from the books by O. I. Rogova (Schmidt-Moskvitinova) "Russian heroes" (1912) and N. A. Nadezhdin "Bogatyrs and knights of the Russian land" (1911). The collection is decorated with 150 illustrations and design elements by artists N. A. Bogatov, P. Gilev, N. N. Karazin, E. K. Sokolovsky, A. Morozov and others.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books in the series Library of World Literature