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Stenka Razin Stenka Razin
STENKA RAZIN (c. 1630–1671), leader of a Don Cossack revolt and hero of folksong and legend. Stepan Timofeyvich Razin, also known as Stenka Razin, is the hero of innumerable folksongs, legends and works of art. The most popular motif is his (legendary) sacrifice of his bride, a Persian... Read more
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Don Cossacks Cossack settlers (see Cossacks ) who in the 16th cent. founded the virtually independent republic of the Don Cossacks on the fertile steppes along the lower course of the Don River. Novocherkassk was their chief town. The host of the Don Cossacks was governed by a popular council,... Read more
Lavr Georgyevich Kornilov Lavr Georgyevich Kornilov
Lavr Georgievich Kornilov Lavr Georgievich Kornilov (1870-1918) was a general in the imperial Russian army and the counterrevolutionary Volunteer Army. He is most famous for attempting a military coup against the Russian provisional government while serving as its commander in chief. Lavr Kornilov... Read more
Kharkiv Kharkiv
Kharkiv , Rus. Kharkov, city (1990 est. pop. 1,600,000), capital of Kharkiv region, E Ukraine, at the confluence of the Kharkiv, Lopan, and Udy rivers in the upper Donets valley. Ukraine's second largest city, Kharkiv is also one of the country's main rail junctions and economic and cultural... Read more
Ilya Yefimovich Repin Ilya Yefimovich Repin
Ilya Yefimovich Repin , 1844-1930, Russian historical and genre painter and sculptor. He studied in St. Petersburg and abroad and became the foremost representative of the realistic style in Russia. In his Volga Boatmen, The Arrest of a Political Offender, and The Terrorists Repin expressed... Read more
Byliny Byliny
BYLINA Oral epic song type. The term bylina is a nineteenth-century scholarly innovation, although it is found with a different meaning ("true happening") in the Lay of Igor's Campaign and Zadonshchina. Folksingers generally called any such songs starina or starinka (song of olden times). Known... Read more
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