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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 ...
In 2020, the name was changed to Day of the Holy Brothers Cyril and Methodius, of the Bulgarian alphabet, education and culture and of the Slavonic literature. Cyril and Methodius had been saints since the 9th century , and the commemoration of their saint's day had been celebrated in Bulgaria since the 12th century.
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.
Jewelry of the Novgorod Slovenes. The Novgorod Slavs, Ilmen Slavs (Russian: Ильменские словене, Il'menskiye slovene), or Slovenes (not to be confused with the South Slavic Slovenes) were the northernmost tribe of the Early Slavs, and inhabited the shores of Lake Ilmen, and the river basins of the Volkhov, Lovat, Msta, and the upper stream of the Mologa in the 8th to 10th ...
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Cheap and simple books, similar to chapbooks, [83] which mostly consisted of pictures, are called lubok literature or (Cyrillic: Russian: лубочная литература). Both pictures and literature are commonly referred to simply as lubki. The Russian word lubok derives from lub – a special type of board that pictures were printed on.
In common with other Slavic groups, they were often described by Germanic sources as Wends. Map of the Billunger Mark (c. 1000) showing different tribes of the Obotritic confederation. The main tribes of the Obotritic confederation were: [2] the Obotrites proper (Wismar Bay to Lake Schwerin); the Wagrians (the eastern Holstein as part of Saxony);
In early September of 995, while Soběslav was at war against Lusatian tribes as Boleslaw's and Otto III's ally, Boleslaus II with confederates (the Vršovci) stormed Libice on September 28, and massacred all of the family, although he originally promised a truce to Soběslav's brothers until his return.