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Magazine "Macedonian Review" began to print in 1991 as a continuation of the old magazine, printed from 1924 to 1943 and after restoration of the Sofia Macedonian Scientific Institute work in 1990.
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The paper examines the folklore motif in the epic tradition of the Southern Slavs concerning the maiden-hero and her arrows with feathers, who put Krali Marko and his confreres to the test. The author explains the meaning of vuina as juniper and spruce for the Bulgarians, and as fir in the Russian language, and recalls the semantic closeness between cedar and cypress – the trees symbolising Artemis and Aphrodite, being associated later with the Virgin Mary. The role of the maiden-hero, who is often depicted dancing and the feather is seen not only on her arrows, but also as a part of her garments – above all as head-dress – was associated with the idea of fertility and with the archetypal image of the Great Goddess. The colour of the feathers and their number appears to be of essential importance to the magic power of the arrow that the maiden-hero (samovila) shoots against the hero, while – on the other hand – the hero manages to kill the maiden (samovila) precisely with such an arrow. The feather motif is known in another semantic order as well: the hero’s fight against a mythological dragon-monster, in which he is victorious owing to a feather from the mythical bird Noah (known among the different peoples as Nog, Nogot, Nagar-tur, Nogarshin, Cher-nogot, Cher-nagar, Astratir, Ostrafil, etc.). The different notions about that mythical bird are united by common iconographic features: huge size, radiance, living at the end of the world in a cave, or on top of cliffs, or on a sacred tree. In conclusion, the author stresses that the diversity of feathers in folklore is connected with their magic properties, whereby the emphasis changes depending on their function and origin (from vuina, from a bird or from a mythological creature.
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The purpose of the research. This research is devoted to the significant phenomenon of locating individual parts of the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead on the unusual type of sources. Attention is focused on the previously unexplored phenomenon of the Book’s of the Dead text and/or illustrations placement on the funerary stelae – commemorative plates, installed in the tombs and funerary temples of individuals. The place of this type of the sources in the context of the entire volume of the Book of the Dead is considered. The chronological framework of the existence of stelae with text/images from the Book of the Dead is described: all currently known stelae are exemplified. The integration of the main plot into the system of funerary stelae is described. The research methodology applied to this study is the use of the comparative method. Without a comprehensive analysis of the exact sources it made possible the consideration of the phenomenon as a whole. Scientific novelty of the article consists of studying of the fact of placing text and/or illustrations from the Book of the Dead on the funerary stelae. This research helped to trace the way of integration of the Book’s of the Dead motives into the funeral cult system of the stelae owners. Conclusions. This research helped to identify the most popular scene from the Book of the Dead, which was integrated into the funeral stelae system during the New Kingdom. It was determined that the motive of the scene corresponds well to the funeral stelae role and thus, substantiates the usage of this sort of sources for the placement of the Book’s of the Dead vignettes.
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Professor Michael Dyhan was a prominent Ukrainian Slavonic scholar who left a solid scientific heritage devoted to important issues in the history of the Bulgarian people and the Russian-Bulgarian and Bulgarian-Ukrainian relations over the centuries.
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The outcry in the American society caused by the defeat of the Ilindenko-Preobrajensko Uprising in 1903 created the prerequisites for the foundation of a Bulgarian-American social committee in March 1904.
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The article examines the names of places that are in the village of Troskovo, Blagoevgrad.
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The sketch From spirit (not)similar: Słowacki — Chopin, referring mainly to their biographies, it tries to show the relations that existed between these outstanding people. They first met in Warsaw before 1830, and although they later met a few times in Paris, where they emigrated after the fall of the November Uprising, they did not establish closer ties. Despite a certain physical similarity, a similar psychological sensitivity and some parallels in experiencing the Polish vicissitudes, they looked at each other with reserve. In a sense Słowacki tried to be resistant to a peculiar Chopin cult that his mother practiced. The relations between the men were rather asymmetric. Słowacki showed a greater interest in the composer than vice versa. Also the relations that existed in the circles of the Great Emigration, where the leading role was played by Adam Mickiewicz, influenced their opinions about each other. The discussion may be concluded with the statement that in the case of Słowacki and Chopin the Romantic theory on the correspondence of arts was not confirmed here by the “correspondence of personalities.”
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The current article focuses on the reasons why Fyodor Dostoevsky believe Russia have to intervene in Balkan affairs and defend the orthodox slaves and their cause after the anti-ottoman April uprising, which took place in the south Danube lands of the empire in 1876.
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The publication presents the scientific and everyday relations between the Bulgarian scholar and Professor at Kharkov University Marin Drinov (1838–1906) and the Czech slavist and Librarian of the National Museum Adolf Patera (1836–1912).The relation becomes a mediator of knowledge for the Bulgarians; a mediator of a new concepts in science, culture, Slavic studies etc., whose path starts at the heart of Europe – Bohemia, to reach Bulgarians and affect their worldview. M. Drinov, together with V. D. Stoyanov was greatly influenced by A. Patera and other Czech intellectuals, including in the creation of the Bulgarian Literary Society in Braila. The publication also includes brief biographies of Marin Drinov and Adolf Patera.
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After nearly two decades of development being at low ebb, China’s relations with Eastern European socialist states began to thaw, and realized the normalization in the late 1980s. Just at a time when China initiated the policy of opening to the world, the process of approach and understanding was needed, much more information about East European countries was transferred to the public in China during the early 1980s. The rebuilt of image was not only to change the public cognition to Eastern Europe, but create atmosphere for China’s reform, which also paved the way for improving mutual relationship.
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This article explores the phenomenon of the ‘Green Cadres' at the end of the First World War in Austria-Hungary, with a focus on events in western Slovakia 1918-1920. The Green Cadres were bands of army deserters and radicalized peasants who hid in the forests and mountains of the monarchy during the last year of the war and then violently attempted to topple the social-political order in many localities as the state collapsed. The article suggests that they represented both the last major episode of peasant unrest in the region and a radical new attempt by the rural common people to influence the character of national and social politics in the interwar period. The nationalist dimension of this loose social movement appears to have been particularly strong in western Slovakia and may indicate some affiliation with the leaders of Slovak Catholic populism. On the other hand, the inability of nationalist elites to coopt the Green Cadres was in part responsible for their marginalization in narratives of Czechoslovak liberation as well as in contemporary historiography. On the basis of sources in Slovak, Czech, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, and German, this study argues that the Slovak case of the Green Cadres fits into a broader transnational phenomenon, which sheds new light on the history of East Central Europe in the twentieth century.
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