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The brothers Lech and Czech, founders of West Slavic lands of Lechia and Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic) in "Chronica Polonorum" (1506). Lech, Czech and Rus (Czech pronunciation: [lɛx tʃɛx rus], Polish pronunciation: [lɛx t͡ʂɛx rus]) refers to a founding legend of three Slavic brothers who founded three Slavic peoples: the Poles, the Czechs, and the Ruthenians [1] (Belarusians ...
The Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles (Russian: Полное собрание русских летописей, romanized: Polnoe sobranie russkikh letopisei [1] [2], abbr. PSRL [1] [2]) is a series of published volumes aimed at collecting all medieval East Slavic chronicles, with various editions published in Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and Russian Federation.
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (1890—1907) claims that the first known use of the word in a Kievan context occurred in Stanisław Sarnicki's 1585 book Descriptio veteris et novae Poloniae cum divisione ejusdem veteri et nova (A description of the Old and the New Poland with the old, and a new division of the same), which states ...
'Prince and the Gray Wolf', of the East Slavic Folktale Classification (Russian: СУС, romanized: SUS): hero seeks the firebird, a horse and a princess with the aid of a gray wolf; jealous elder brothers kill him, but he is revived by the gray wolf. [15] Folklorist Jeremiah Curtin noted that the Russian, Slavic and German variants are many. [16]
It introduces a new approach about the ethnogenesis of the early Slavs, especially in Southeastern Europe, advancing a hypothesis that the early Slavic identity was an invention of the Byzantine Empire on the Danubian Limes, and with Slavic language it spread without mass migration from Slavic Urheimat. [2]
The Chronica Sclavorum or Chronicle of the Slavs is a medieval chronicle which recounts the pre-Christian culture and religion of the Polabian Slavs, written by Helmold (c. 1120 – after 1177), a Saxon priest and historian.
The Slav Epic 1930 exhibition poster. Alphonse Mucha spent many years working on The Slav Epic cycle, which he considered his life's masterwork. He had dreamed of completing such a series, a celebration of Slavic history, since the turn of the 20th century; however, his plans were limited by financial constraints.
Early printed books, published before 1800, and the book and magazine production of the 19th century (more than 34,000 documents) have been digitised thanks to a joint project of the National Library of the CR and Google. As part of the development of the National Digital Library, the printed production issued by Russian, Ukrainian and ...