#Mamay

[postcard-from-the-past]

"St. Sergius blesses Dmitry Donskoy to fight Mamay", painting by Aleksandr Novoskoltsev

Russian vintage postcard

[wanderer-on-the-steppe]

My brain is a MESS that I haven't reblogged this before!

This is breathtaking! The Cossack and his horse look so real and alive with so little detail, and their almost black silhouettes in front of that sunset, and the dark but still colourful grasses with all these little accents of light make the most atmospheric steppe scene imaginable. Absolutely incredible!

Cossack Mamay (2022)

This work was inspired by the image of the Cossack Ivan Bohun (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Bohun) and the Ukrainian folklore hero of the 17th century - the Cossack Mamay (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cossack_Mamay). This is my tribute to the Ukrainian people and also to my ancestors, who had the surname Mamaeu, descendants of Mamay…

[kobzars]

Cossack Mamay sits on a mead barrel (vodka infused with honey) under the Tree of Life and plays his sad melody. He is disturbed by what is written in Ukrainian at the top of the painting: "Ой, лихо настало - коли медовухи не стало" (Oh, trouble came when the mead was gone).

[funstealer]

Decommissioned Shoe (2012) by Jeff Muhs Concrete and Manolo Blahnik Shoe

[vyllea]

voi realizați ca ft probabil o sa trb sa votam cu PSD în turul 2? noi și moșii.

[wanderer-on-the-steppe]

Oh that's a great find! Thank you @princess-stefan-3cy !

Cossack Mamay (c) Oleh Shuplyak

[angryelbow]

quick thing of my grumpy lalafell Mamai Mai, gloomy Nald'thal cleric and alcohol hobbyist

[akitalockwood]

Day 4 - Witch + Ice

I cooked

[lemuseum]

[theophan-o]

Contemporary re-interpretation of a classical theme from the Ukrainian art: Cossack Mamay. Great.

[vintage-ukraine]

Cossack Mamay the Folk Hero Sings a Ukrainian Ballad by Oleksandr Sayenko, 1926

[tomorrowusa]

Ukrainian sea drones are becoming faster, more accurate, and more powerful. With a range of over 1,000 km, they must keep commanders of Putin's Black Sea from getting much sleep.

Ukrainian naval drones Sea Baby have been modernized and can now carry almost a ton of explosives to hit a target over 1,000 kilometers away, Artem Dekhtiarenko, the spokesperson of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), said on April 14. "This means that the SBU can reach a target almost anywhere in the Black Sea," added Dekhtiarenko. In recent months, Ukraine has intensified its attacks on occupied Crimea, targeting Russian military assets in and around the Black Sea with domestically-produced sea drones and long-range missiles. Russia has illegally occupied the peninsula since 2014. As of early February 2024, 33% of the Russian Black Sea fleet's warships had been disabled by Ukraine, the Strategic Communications Center of Ukraine's Armed Forces recently reported. The SBU currently uses two types of sea drones — Sea Baby and Mamai, Dekhtiarenko said on national television.

"These are already new generations of drones, on the improvement of which the team of SBU specialists worked and continues to work together with other members of the Security and Defense Forces."

Ukraine continues to develop and upgrade its sea drone forces. When Russian missile launching vessels are forced to cower in distant ports, they are unable to launch attacks on Ukrainian maternity hospitals and schools.

Ukraine's ability to rule the waves of the Black Sea, despite having no real navy, is another example of its determination to fight off Russian invaders.

The only way to end the war is to make Ukraine safe from Russian aggression. Putin is already in violation of several treaties and other international agreements regarding Ukrainian sovereignty. Only a fool or MAGA supporter (basically the same thing) would expect Putin to respect any new agreement. Appeasement of Hitler did not stop World War II – it accelerated it.

If you're in the US, look up your member of the House of Representatives and demand that Russophile Speaker "MAGA Mike" Johnson quit blocking US aid to Ukraine which has already passed the Senate. And I'm talking to you – not the neighbor with the broken porch light.

Find Your Representative

If you have a MAGA zombie as a Representative, ask: Why do you hate freedom?

[magnoliamyrrh]

sometimes i think abt how one day if we have kids our kids, most of them, will not have a bunch of rural traditional balkan grandparents to go to and it breaks me. farm animals, home made foods, old recipies, tales as old as time, folk stories and traditions and remedies, those old traditional fireplaces....... our children, many of them, may never catch this world.... we lose so much all the time. i do not have the words to express my sorrow

[genevieveetguy]

Anora, Sean Baker (2024)

[lae-zels]

mamais amell: origins, II, inquisition, dreadwolf

[kobzars]

Cossack Mamay is found in legends, folk tales and proverbs. They became widely popular after the dissolution of the Zaporizhian Sich in 1775. Cossack Mamay is one of the most common characters in Ukrainian folk painting from the end of the XVII century to the present time.