Russia Culture General

[thetruewhitenorth]

Russian peasants, 1895

 

[thetruewhitenorth]

Tsar Nicholas with his sister Olga (to his right). By the way, last years of her life Olga lived in Canada in exile and died in Toronto.

 

[thetruewhitenorth]

A peasant girl, beginning of XX century.

 

[Pantheon]

Makes sense. Finland used to be part of the Russian Empire. And even before Imperial times, during the Middle Ages, it is understandable that Russkies contacted with their neighboring peoples and obviously had a very significant cultural influence.

It goes deeper than that. Russian culture itself is a mix of Finno-Ugric (north), Slavic (central/south) and Turkic (east). Thus, there is a natural continuity between the cultures from ancient times.

 

[Stoyan]

Thus, there is a natural continuity between the cultures from ancient times.

How ancient? You would be surprised.

Spoiler: Heresy!

 

[thetruewhitenorth]

City of the dead Dargavs, Northern Osetia. Each structure has up to ten corpses.

 

[thetruewhitenorth]

Kalmikiya

 

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Moscow, 1908

 

[Stoyan]

I looked it up, and it is apparently a Russian Orthodox cartoon which was produced during the period of Soviet rule in Russia. That's different from Soviet political cartoons though, which are pure Bolshevik propaganda.

Here are some other Russian Orthodox cartoons. They are the best educational materials for home schooling children for preserving the faith and culture.

Even more traditional Russian cartoons. These ones are ancient and/or medieval Russian folk mythology, knights, wizards, supernatural creatues, etc.

 

[Pantheon]

How ancient? You would be surprised.

Spoiler: Heresy!

So there is continuity even between Russia and Native Americans? It makes sense since the "native" Americans are Siberian immigrants, like the Saami in Scandinavia.

 

[TooFineAPoint]

The three greatest Russian films of all time (and indeed in the running for GREATEST films period) were all directed by Andrei Tarkovsky:

Mirror


Andrei Rublev


Stalker


And one of the most beautiful pieces of music was composed by Rachmaninov:


And of course there are the wonderful books by Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. The Dos masterpiece is -- for me -- Demons. Tolstoy was so consistently amazing, but there was something about his late period shorts that stuck out to me (eg. The Kreutzer Sonata and the Forged Coupon). And probably every word by Chekhov.

 

[Stoyan]

The three greatest Russian films of all time (and indeed in the running for GREATEST films period) were all directed by Andrei Tarkovsky:

These videos are not the full films, only fragments.

 

[TooFineAPoint]

These videos are not the full films, only fragments.

Yes, I know. I posted trailers. What's your point?

 

[Stoyan]

Yes, I know. I posted trailers. What's your point?

It would be good to post the full movie to this thread.

 

[Stoyan]

Sounds identical to traditional Finnish music. Lots of harmonica and melancholic tunes. And that stringed instrument is called "kantele" in Finnish.

Tell me if you have such music in Finland too.

 

[Pantheon]

Tell me if you have such music in Finland too.

Yes, indeed, here's some Finnish-Karelian folk music:

 

[thetruewhitenorth]

Yakutiya

 

[thetruewhitenorth]

City of Yegoryevsk, central street

 

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Monument to two Russian military composers in Tambov