for anyone who is interested and like me, failed to have any sort of world history in high school
before 987- Pagan time! Tribes, fighting each other, fighting themselves, various religious rituals that dont have a common base or anything like that. crazy time!
987- Prince Vladimir (I'm not sure how they got a prince if everyone was all crazy but the book didnt say) was like "oh hey guys, Orthodoxy looks prettier than other types of Christianity, lets try that!" and so they did, because the art made him feel like he was in heaven, which is nice.
1240- Genghis Khan shows up and beats the shit out of everyone until...
1380- Russians get their act together and fight back
1530-1584 rule of "Tsar and Grand Prince Ivan of Russia" (Ivan the Terrible) who failed at leaving a heir so there was the "Time of Trouble" after he died until...
1613- Romanov Dynasty made everything better until...
Nicholas II was crap and his wife secretly ran everything with the "whimsical" advice of Rasputin
but then Bloody Sunday + WWI = Pissed off poor people and REVOLUTION!!! AHHH!!
and then communism
and dictatorship
and fail.
also between 1918-1921 there was civil war, Reds v. Whites
So, themes of Russian history we could use?
-Liking pretty, decadent, colorful, rich things
-Combining those things with simple, common things and the result isnt always positive
-Periods of prosperity followed by periods of disaster
-using color to represent two sides of a fight
-Poor v. Rich
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also, the nobility wanted nothing to do with folk tales but they thrived among the poor.
ReplyDeleteso would a prince lost in the woods know about Baba? would he dismiss her as just an old hag and then pay the consiquenses? it seems like all of the characters enter the woods with an established fear of her from hearing stories and survive because of it.
but princes and princesses are an established part of russian folklore. they usually know what's up. unless they are rude.
ReplyDeletealso, genghis khan apparently lived forever!?
I saw genghis khan eat a bear... last Tuesday.
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