Greetings, all! I'm teaching persona development w/ Russian source material, context, etc. I'm also teaching an overview of Russian history (in period). A lady...
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halbrust_of_caid
halbrust_of_...
Mar 7, 2012 11:51 pm
Hi everyone. First post here, not sure why I hadn't joined earlier. I've found a few depictions of 10th century Rus/Slav men wearing all white. Is there any...
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Liudmila
mamainna2000
Mar 8, 2012 2:03 am
This is usually when they are in their underwear due to their penitent status or as they are being executed. However, white in the outer wear could also happen...
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Soraya Newell
sorayaevodia
Mar 9, 2012 5:08 am
Didn't a 16th C. visitor (von Herberstein, maybe) write about a lavish dinner, where the plates were gold and the Tsar was served by men in white velvet? ...
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Noora Salminen
yoru_no_kitsune
Mar 9, 2012 1:19 pm
... I don't know about Slavic groups for sure, but in Fenno-Ugric tribes white clothes were worn for religious holidays and feasts. That info is from ...
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rickjs
orlirva
Mar 9, 2012 2:15 pm
I have heard/read that the charisteritic 'look ' of a slavic military hord was white upper-outerwear. The arguments/evidence behind that, I don't know. -Rick...
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quokkaqueen
Mar 14, 2012 9:46 pm
I found this PDF, aimed at French re-enactors that might interest some people: http://maryline.huet.free.fr/Costume_Rus.pdf She has included photographs of...
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Catherine Olanich Ray...
cathyr19355
Mar 14, 2012 11:04 pm
... Thanks for posting this! There are some wonderful images here (I wish there was more explanation of some of them, even in French, which I can read a...
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Sfandra
Seonaid13
Mar 14, 2012 11:22 pm
Ha! "Le site internet de Lisa Kies/Sofya la Rus est très riche." (The internet site of Lisa Kies/Sofya la Rus is very lush [useful, full of information]) ...
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Sfandra
Seonaid13
Mar 14, 2012 11:23 pm
I'll sit down and do a full translation, if anyone's interested.  --Sfandra  ****************** Boiarynia Sfandra Dmitrieva Chernigova O.L., O.M., K.O.E.,...
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Soraya Newell
sorayaevodia
Mar 15, 2012 7:57 pm
Asfridhr, this is a nice link. Thank you. Sfandra, I'd love to see a translation, especially the part about the long gold embroidery (presumably a veil?)...
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Sheila Horon
sshoron
Mar 17, 2012 4:06 am
Would Cezary Wyszynski please contact me. thank you [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Jeanne
bettybetrave...
Mar 21, 2012 4:22 am
Hello This came today in a dance email I received for my Ukrainian Dance Group and I thought it might be of some interest to anyone with a Byzantine persona. ...
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goldschp tds.net
goldschp
Apr 16, 2012 1:41 am
The Spring Slovo has just been published at the Slavic Interest Group website. Check it out at: http://www.goldschp.net/SIG/slovo/news65.html Thanks, Paul...
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Ladie Lada
ladie_lada
Apr 26, 2012 5:27 pm
Greetings, Has anyone read this book or knows about it's contents? ...
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Jennifer Nelson Kemp
jln8817
Apr 26, 2012 7:32 pm
If its the book I'm thinking of its sometimes called the "ostromir lectionary" and I did a page from it for an A&S project once. A picture from the book...
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Jessica Carlock
kargashina
Apr 26, 2012 8:58 pm
Ooh shiny. If is a facsimile I need to grab it too. On Apr 26, 2012, at 12:31, Jennifer Nelson Kemp <lady.ianuk@...>...
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wheezul@...
jillwheezul
Apr 26, 2012 9:46 pm
There is a fascimile: http://portlandstate.worldcat.org/oclc/21372577 The book is 100 pages, but the manuscript has 294 sheets (588 pages). I suspect that the...
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T Duran
sazabhadri@...
Apr 26, 2012 11:00 pm
Another plea for help from the Heralds list ! Can Asfridhr, Lady Patricia, or others help this gentle ? Kazimira ... Recently there was a discussion on...
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Patty
patoodle2001
Apr 27, 2012 12:47 am
*sigh* Sometimes I wish that, when heraldic customers want something out-of-the-ordinary that they didn't find in their local consulting herald's books, they...
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T Duran
sazabhadri@...
Apr 27, 2012 1:41 am
Thanks, Patricia. Will pass that on. Kazimira ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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T Duran
sazabhadri@...
Apr 27, 2012 1:45 am
Also, my apologies to the list for completely failing to trim that reply. ... Kazimira [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Sfandra
Seonaid13
Apr 28, 2012 7:00 am
HI! Those on Facebook already know: I got PENNSIC! WOOT! Wasn't sure it was going to happen this year. But the vacation time is approved, and barring...
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goldschp tds.net
goldschp
Apr 28, 2012 12:28 pm
Is anyone hosting a SIG gathering? Would anyone like to do so? Paul ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Patty
patoodle2001
Apr 28, 2012 3:01 pm
I think that both a SIG gathering and a Slavic class track are a fine idea. Personally, I am not making a decision on my Pennsic attendance until just before...
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Sfandra
Seonaid13
Apr 28, 2012 7:34 pm
I can probably host the gathering in our encampment, but I have to find out whom will be Lord this war.... that'll be decided mid-May. Once that person is...
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Pan Zygmunt Nadratowski
tomnadra
Apr 29, 2012 12:09 pm
..and recently (last few months) emailed me and didn't get a response, please email me again. I have the internet back on at home. If you know someone who...
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Laura Munn
arathreel
Apr 29, 2012 3:11 pm
I am probably going to be teaching again. I was asked, at the very least, to do my round table on women in medieval times again, and the Russian women in...
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Laura Munn
arathreel
Apr 30, 2012 3:51 am
I swear at one point I had heard about a book they were trying to translate into english of Slavic/Russian etc period dances, kind of like Playford. Did I hear...
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quokkaqueen
May 1, 2012 3:36 am
<<snip>> "Fryderyk"; as a Polish spelling, and one page from the Academy of St. Gabriel (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/walraven/polish/) lists "Fryderyk,...
