Personification of Russia

The personification of Russia is traditionally feminine and most commonly maternal since the Middle Ages. The common terms for the national personification of Russia are: Mother Russia Russian: Матушка Россия, romanized: Matushka Rossiya (dim.); also Russian: Мать-Россия, romanized: Mat'-Rossiya; or Russian: Матушка Русь, romanized: Matushka Rus', lit. 'Mother Rus''; or Russian: Россия-матушка, romanized: Rossiya-matushka, lit. 'Russia the Mother' Homeland the Mother Russian: Родина-мать, romanized: Rodina-mat In the Russian language, the concept of motherland is rendered by two terms: "place of birth", (feminine gender, Russian: ро́дина, romanized: rodina) "fatherland", (masculine gender, Russian: отечество, отчи́зна, romanized: otchizna) Harald Haarmann and Orlando Figes see the goddess Mokosh a source of the "Mother Russia" concept.

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