Eastern Europa
Ethnographic archive dedicated to the landscape and folklore of Eastern Europe, with an emphasis on the Slavic peoples.
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Бер 14, 2025Апошнія публікацыі ў групе "Eastern Europa"
20.04.202510:00
Happy Easter!
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20.04.202508:00
Ján Kollár, Prelude to The Daughter of Sláva, 1824 (extract translated by Roderick Aldrich Ginsburg, 1943):
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(...) Tell me oh tree, who has served as their natural sacred shrine,
beneath whose crown they burnt offerings to ancient Gods,
where are these nations today? Where are their rulers and towns?
Where are they who engendered life in these barren lands of the North?
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15.04.202517:00
Translated extracts of the 1927 Polish tango Polesia czar (The Charm of Polesia) by J. A. Kostecki, describing the mystical beauty of the region:
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Amongst meadows, forests and depths of water, in a continuous, pointless pursuit of life,
there lives a gloomy folk.
Swarms of flies buzz over the swamps,
a cart creaks riding from time to time
and fording a slushy river.
Sometimes there can be heard a roar of an elk or the wild shout of a woodgrouse in a thicket,
then again silence so much immovable.
(...) The charm of Polesia are wild forests and marshlands.
The charm of Polesia is the cheerless moaning of the wind...
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15.04.202508:00
The Urheimat of the Slavic peoples
Ever since Jan Peisker's (1851 – 1933) note was published in the 1926 edition of The Cambridge Medieval History, historians and archaeologists have used the results of linguistic research to trace the ethnic history of the Slavs: that's the case of the Polish botanist Prof. Józef Rostafiński (1850 – 1928), who among the various scholars drew some radical conclusions about the homeland of the Slavic ethnos based on language rather than archaeological finds.
He noted that the common Slavic words for trees such as the beech (Fagus), the larch (Larix) and the yew (Taxus) had been borrowed from foreign languages, specifically Germanic, therefore suggesting that the Proto-Slavic must have developed in an area which lacked those plants: the boundless Pripyat Marshes of the Polesian Lowland, the now indisputable Slavic Urheimat.
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The Slav is the son and product of the marsh.
Ever since Jan Peisker's (1851 – 1933) note was published in the 1926 edition of The Cambridge Medieval History, historians and archaeologists have used the results of linguistic research to trace the ethnic history of the Slavs: that's the case of the Polish botanist Prof. Józef Rostafiński (1850 – 1928), who among the various scholars drew some radical conclusions about the homeland of the Slavic ethnos based on language rather than archaeological finds.
He noted that the common Slavic words for trees such as the beech (Fagus), the larch (Larix) and the yew (Taxus) had been borrowed from foreign languages, specifically Germanic, therefore suggesting that the Proto-Slavic must have developed in an area which lacked those plants: the boundless Pripyat Marshes of the Polesian Lowland, the now indisputable Slavic Urheimat.
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12.04.202513:00
Detailed view of the map and the description of Polesia (Hessel Gerritsz and Willem Blaeu, Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae, 1613).
The map covers the territory of Lithuania and parts of Poland, Russia and Latvia, extending to Krakow, Kiev, Warsaw, Riga, Königsberg, Danzig, Lemberg and the nearby regions.
It was engraved under the instructions of Nicholas Christopher Radziwiłł, and it is one of the most important works of the European cartography from the early 17th century and an important contribution to the progress in the mapping of the whole continent.
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The map covers the territory of Lithuania and parts of Poland, Russia and Latvia, extending to Krakow, Kiev, Warsaw, Riga, Königsberg, Danzig, Lemberg and the nearby regions.
It was engraved under the instructions of Nicholas Christopher Radziwiłł, and it is one of the most important works of the European cartography from the early 17th century and an important contribution to the progress in the mapping of the whole continent.
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12.04.202510:00
Closer view of the map (Daniel Zwicker, Paludum Polesiae Tabula, 1650).
The prominent marked centers being Chernobyl (Czernobel), above in the map, while Kiev (Kijów) below, the latter shown as densely forested on the right basin of the Dnepr River.
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The prominent marked centers being Chernobyl (Czernobel), above in the map, while Kiev (Kijów) below, the latter shown as densely forested on the right basin of the Dnepr River.
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12.04.202510:00
Details of the map (Sebastian Münster, Polonia et Ungaria XX Nova Tabula, 1552).
Pinsk (Pinsko) right below the Pripyat Marshes (Sarmatica palus), Vilna and Grodno above. The Neman (Nemen) flowing near Novgorudok (Noudgrodes), the Pripyat River (Pripetius) below; all of that as part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Lituaniae ducatus).
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Pinsk (Pinsko) right below the Pripyat Marshes (Sarmatica palus), Vilna and Grodno above. The Neman (Nemen) flowing near Novgorudok (Noudgrodes), the Pripyat River (Pripetius) below; all of that as part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Lituaniae ducatus).
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05.04.202517:00
Writing his epic poem (The Daughter of Sláva), Ján Kollár was strongly influenced by the German Romanticism, Dante's works (such as the Vita Nova and the Divine Comedy) and Petrarch; the classical influence can be noticed as well, having Kollár named the last two parts of the poem after the Lethe and the Acheron, the two mythological rivers.
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05.04.202510:00
Ján Kollár (1793 – 1852) was a Slovak writer (mainly poet), archaeologist, scientist, linguist, Lutheran pastor and politician.
He studied at the Lutheran Lyceum in Pressburg and in 1817 at the University of Jena, becoming a Lutheran pastor in Budapest and from 1849 professor of Slavic antiquities at the University of Vienna. In Weimar he met Goethe, who was interested in Slovak folk songs and asked to provide them for him.
In his works (the main one being Slávy dcera, The Daughter of Sláva, a long cycle of sonnets intended to become a national epic) he developed the conception of reciprocity among the Slavic peoples. He also admitted four standard languages: Russian, Polish, Czechoslovak and Serbo-Croatian.
Image: Portrait of Ján Kollár by Johann Vilímek.
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He studied at the Lutheran Lyceum in Pressburg and in 1817 at the University of Jena, becoming a Lutheran pastor in Budapest and from 1849 professor of Slavic antiquities at the University of Vienna. In Weimar he met Goethe, who was interested in Slovak folk songs and asked to provide them for him.
In his works (the main one being Slávy dcera, The Daughter of Sláva, a long cycle of sonnets intended to become a national epic) he developed the conception of reciprocity among the Slavic peoples. He also admitted four standard languages: Russian, Polish, Czechoslovak and Serbo-Croatian.
Image: Portrait of Ján Kollár by Johann Vilímek.
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05.04.202510:00
Ján Kollár, Prelude to The Daughter of Sláva, 1824 (extract translated by Roderick Aldrich Ginsburg, 1943):
Image: «The dispute over the border» by Wacław Boratyński, 1939.
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Here lies this ancestral land before my saddened tear-dimmed eyes,
my nation's cradle once, today its burial casket.
(...) From Elbe's treacherous shores to where the Vistula flows,
from the Danube's verdant banks to where the Baltic foams.
Where echoed the mellow words of courageous peaceful Slavs,
now lifeless and mute this voice, a victim of envy and hate.
Who is to blame for these crimes that cry to the heavens above?
Who in assaulting one, insulted all nations and men?
Blush envious Teuton whose lands bordered the homes of the Slavs,
your hands are stained with the guilt of these most callous crimes.
Image: «The dispute over the border» by Wacław Boratyński, 1939.
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02.04.202508:00
(Ebbo III, 1)
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...asserentibus idolorum sacerdotibus ideo summum deum tria habere capita, quoniam triaprocuraret regna, id est coeli, terrae et inferni...
...the priests of the idols assert that the supreme god has three heads, because he rules over three kingdoms, that is, heaven, earth and hell...
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02.04.202508:00
The priesthood
The information concerning the pre-Christian Slavic priesthood is more or less scarce; most of it comes from Latin sources, with Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum and Helmold's Chronica Slavorum being the main ones.
The priests were mostly engaged in sacrifices, divination and determining the feasts' dates. They also seemed to possess cosmological knowledge (according to Ebbo, the priests of Stettin explained the tripartite nature of the cosmos) and were the major source of resistance against Christianity.
Besides the Latin sources, we are informed about the role of the priest-charmers in the Old East Slavic texts, where they are known as волхвы (volhvs). Their first literary reference occurs in the Primary Chronicle under the year 912: there, a sorcerer predicts the death of Oleg (Helge) the Wise, Prince of Kiev. They eventually came under persecution with the adoption of Christianity.
Image: Depiction of Prince Oleg being approached by the wiseman, V. D. Puzanov-Molev, 1943.
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The information concerning the pre-Christian Slavic priesthood is more or less scarce; most of it comes from Latin sources, with Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum and Helmold's Chronica Slavorum being the main ones.
The priests were mostly engaged in sacrifices, divination and determining the feasts' dates. They also seemed to possess cosmological knowledge (according to Ebbo, the priests of Stettin explained the tripartite nature of the cosmos) and were the major source of resistance against Christianity.
Besides the Latin sources, we are informed about the role of the priest-charmers in the Old East Slavic texts, where they are known as волхвы (volhvs). Their first literary reference occurs in the Primary Chronicle under the year 912: there, a sorcerer predicts the death of Oleg (Helge) the Wise, Prince of Kiev. They eventually came under persecution with the adoption of Christianity.
Image: Depiction of Prince Oleg being approached by the wiseman, V. D. Puzanov-Molev, 1943.
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25.03.202509:00
Квас (kvas / kvass) is a traditional fermented Slavic and Baltic beverage, commonly made from rye bread. It may be flavoured with fruits such as strawberries or raisins, or with herbs such as mint. It is especially popular in Russia.
20.03.202514:00
The rowan (рябина) depicted in a 1964 Soviet postage card.
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20.03.202511:00
Botanical illustration of the Sorbus aucuparia (and the Rosaceae) from Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé's Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, 1885.
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