#Polatsk

[redfield-by]

Праект будаўніцтва Наваполацкага/Полацкага трамваю

[unhonestlymirror]

Oh, I love it when people who call themselves "Belarusian" can't even spell their own country's cities properly.

*with that meme voice* OH MY GAAAWWDD WHAT IS THAT :O :O

Now, there are actually several ways to write Polatsk correctly (and Polotsk is NOT one of them):

1. Połack - in łacinka, Belaruthian Latin form. Not very suitable for passports or basic keyboards, but this is the official name for Polatsk you can find in Belaruthian newspapers like Naša Niva.

N.B. Some people don't like using the hard L letter [ł] so they write Polack instead, and just write [li] to highlight the soft L sound, e.g., "kaliandar" - calendar.

2. Polatsak (Połacak) - this is how they used to call Polatsk in taraškievica spelling system (more traditional), before the narkamaŭka spelling system.

"In August 1933, the chairman of the Soviet People's Committee of the BSSR, Galadzed, signed a decree on changes, simplification and actual approximation of the spelling of the Belarusian language to the russian one. At the time of this Bolshevik "reform", most of the leading Belarusian linguists were already in prisons and exiles. By the moment when they are all shot in 1937, the new simplified and close to russian spelling system was already completely prevailed in the BSSR." (c) Radyjo Svaboda about narkamaŭka.

I should add that both taraškevica and narkamaŭka are quite widely used because some people prefer traditional spelling more and some people (my mom) don't like too many letters in one word. If you're studying Belaruthian, it's up to you which system to use, and using narkamaŭka doesn't make you a bad person.

Nevertheless, if you want to be more historically accurate, you better call Polatsk "Polatsak/Połacak".

"Polotsk" is a RUSSIFIED VERSION, and it is as much correct to use as "Kievan Rus" and "Byelorussia". You're not a russian chekist time travelling to our days from 1940s, aren't you?

[unhonestlymirror]

One day, people will stop fucking calling Kyivan Rus' and Polatsk Principality "russian states" but not today

Marco Polo’s Journey

[maximumphilosopheranchor]

The term “Kyivan Rus,” like “Byzantium,” is of later origin – contemporaries of those realms did not use these names. Nineteenth-century scholars came up with the name “Kyivan Rus”. Today the term denotes the polity with its center in Kyiv that existed between the tenth and mid-thirteenth centuries, when it disintegrated under the onslaught of the Mongols. (..) The change in the geopolitical aims of the Kyivan princes, from Yaroslav the Wise to Andrei Bogoliubsky, reflects the reduction of their political loyalties from the entire realm of Kyivan Rus’ to a number of principalities defined by the term “Rus’ Land” and eventually to peripheral principalities that grew strong enough to rival Kyiv in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Historians look to those principality-based identities for the origins of the modern East Slavic nations. The Vladimir-Suzdal principality served as a forerunner of early modern Muscovy and, eventually, of modern Russia. Belarusian historians look to the Polatsk principality for their roots. And Ukrainian historians study the principality of Galicia-Volhynia to uncover the foundations of Ukrainian nation-building projects. But all those identities ultimately lead back to Kyiv, which gives Ukrainians a singular advantage: they can search for their origins without ever leaving their capital.

Serhii Plokhy, The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

[catholic-saint-tournament]

Can I nominate Saint Euphrosyne of Polatsk? The patron saint of Belarus. I also second the nominations for St. Elizabeth of Hungary and St Jadwiga of Poland.

St Euphrosyne sounds so cool! Added to the list of pre-schism saints but a lot more votes will be needed to get her on the bracket!

St Elizabeth of Hungary and St Jadwiga (Hedwig) are doing pretty well now with more votes each!!

Keep voting!!!

[kvietka]

A way to tell whether something is in Belarusian (as opposed to Russian) is when you see "і" or "ў".

There's even a monument in Polatsk dedicated to the letter "ў" which is only found in the Belarusian (cyrillic) alphabet/language.

Please, when you see something written in Cyrillic, don't assume right away that it's russian. Russian is not the only language that uses Cyrillic. There are also Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Mongolian.

It's a sensitive topic especially for us Ukrainians because russian language is a weapon. It's a colonial language, it's presented like one and only true slavic language, it erases and replaces other languages. Belarusian is literally on the verge of extinction because of russian. Ukrainian has been banned 134 times throughout history, it is still called a "village language", a dialect of russian. Russian colonialism is literally the reason why there are so many russian speaking people in Ukraine (I was one of them btw). Ukrainian is banned on russian occupied territories and people are getting in trouble or even killed for using it there, Ukrainian POWs in russian captivity are getting brutally beaten for speaking Ukrainian.

Like okay, I can get why there's this confusion, so here's a clue to understand that the language you're looking at definitely is not russian — the letter і. If you see ї (like i but with two dots) it's 100% Ukrainian. If you see j it's Serbian. Russian alphabet also doesn't have such letters as Ђ, Љ, Њ, Ў, Џ (dont confuse with Ц ). Yes, it's not always gonna be easy to detect that the language in front of you is not russian, but when you have trouble with it just ask or run it through any translation app and it'll probably tell you the language.

Hope this will be helpful.

[travelbinge]

By Evgeny Ostrovsky

Polatsk, Vitsebsk Voblast, Belarus 

[barbarapicci]

#Streetart: "The origins" by #Kashtanov @gleb_kashtanov in #Polatsk, Belarus, for #UrbanMyths @urbansignal Photo by @kir_smolyakov @kseniya_apsid More pics at: https://barbarapicci.com/2022/07/11/streetart-kashtanov-polatsk-belarus/ #streetartbelarus #belarusstreetart #streetartpolatsk  #art #graffiti #murals #murales #urbanart #muralism #muralismo #streetarteverywhere #instastreetart #streetartphotography #streetartpics #streetartaddicted #streetartlover #igersstreetart #graffitiart #arteurbana #wallart #spraypaint #spraypaintart #contemporaryart #artecontemporanea https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf3febvobTj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[thesynaxarium]

Today we also celebrate the Right Believing Prince Alexander Nevsky. Saint Alexander was the Prince of Novgorod, Grand Prince of Kiev, and Grand Prince of Vladimir. He enjoyed military victories over Sweden and Germany, earning the reputation of a hero. He was posthumously beatified as a saint by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1547. Nevsky, who was a grandson of Vsevolod III Yuryevich, was elected the Prince of Novgorod in 1236. Three years after becoming the prince, he married Paraskeviya, a daughter of the Prince of Polatsk. As a ruler, he continued to restore Russia by promulgating laws and building fortifications. He also changed the constitutional base of ruling in Novgorod to implement institutional sovereignty. Due to his bonding with Sartaq Khan, the son of Mongol ruler Batu Khan, Nevsky was proclaimed the Grand Prince of Vladimir in 1252. The prince died in 1263, at the age of 42. Shortly before his death, he had taken monastic vows and received the religious name of Alexis. May he intercede for us always + #saint #alexander #nevsky #russia #prince #novgorod #alexandernevsky #russiankorthkdox #saintoftheday #orthodox (at Suzdal, Russia) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClRy2V0Lx_g/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[unhonestlymirror]

Polatsk principality:

Dad of Belarus

A wizard UwU✨️ looks like Усяслаў Чарадзей (Usiaslaŭ Charadzei) (charadzei means wizard)

Reigen Arataka in terms of words.

Lucky but unlucky.

Loved his daughter so much that he accidentally spoiled her (she's not adapted to political life and believes everyone wants to live peacefully)

Bullied Latgalia (took tributes)

Was bullied by Zemgalia (lost 9000 of finest men)

Curonia finds him cringe, but as long as he buys her swords, that's okay

Has generally good relationships with Baltic family

Fought russia before it became mainstream.

Wants to live peacefully with everyone. Fails every time.

Fought with Ruthenia (Ukraine) a lot until she got disappointed in her government and invited him to fight Polovtsy together.

Successfully defeated Polovtsy and ended up as a Kyivan Rus Duke because of this. Not for long, tho.

His life is Santa Barbara.

Goes to Ukraine to cry how life is unfair.

[coruscato]

@hadzyuka Hoe, hoe, hoe.

As Christmas was the season of giving, Edmund felt led to go out of his way to give to those less fortunate than himself--and, well, this lady in question certainly was unfortunate, in all senses of the word. 

He rapped on her door in Polatsk, straightening out his pea coat as he leaned his weight to the side. Her basket was quite the sight indeed, he looked forward to seeing her face as she rifled through it. But, for now, he had to wait--and if she happened to not answer, he would... well, he would simply go home; there was no sense staying here longer than he had to.

But she would answer, he knew she would. If she wanted free alcohol, she would.

[venicepearl]

Anton Losenko - Vladimir and Rogneda

Rogneda of Polotsk (962–1002) is the Slavic name for Ragnhild, a Princess consort of Rus'. She was the daughter of Ragnvald who came from Scandinavia and established himself at Polatsk in the mid-10th century.

[tenosit]

The thing I believe is that most of you simply do not know USSR, nor countries on which it parasitised. Learning wholesale about new places is not at all an easy process; there aren't simple explanations for whole of our history. This is made harder by performative posturing myth-making authoritarian states love to engage in.

In the West, political thinkers have coupled the ideals of post-capitalist society with this abominable empire, because it said it was doing that. USSR didn't even admit to accomplishing communism, and even other Warsaw Pact countries were seen by people in USSR as being closer to civilisation. The disconnect between what most of you imagine USSR to be, and what we know it to be is staggering, and I feel you should know better.

To say from my position: To a Ukrainian like me, Russia is an imperial concept that homogenises and bastardises cultures into servile class. It does not accept existence of East Slavs that does not tie to Moscow Principality, despite having had command of much older Novgorod and Pskov and, indeed, Kyiv and Polatsk. USSR was continuation of it, steadily homogenising our cultures. There is no world where Archangelsk and Ryazan have same culture, but Russia has worked its best to flatten the diverse and complicated tapestry of cultures, and the fact that we, after centuries and even after Soviet urbanisation, refuse to bend to this force is the reason for this war to begin with. Most Russians have no desire to learn about our culture, but we - and many others in Russian empire - have had to learn theirs.

And, speaking of education - this is more of a personal "pet peeve" of mine, but I do like occasionally looking into Russia treats its history education. A lot of "medieval Russian history" still has exaggerated and borderline-folkloric events like Battle of Kulikovo as its highlights; there is plenty of arguments around them, but the fact that there is little corroborating evidence for them does not say much good. And, of course, "anything ancient East Slav is invariably Russian", based on this term parasitism of "русский".

Russians have ReVoLuTiOnS. Yeah, you know, we study russian history because Ukraine was part of russian empire. You know, colonized territory?

I can name literary 2 revolutions in ALL of russian history.

But I can name at least 10 wars that Russia started in last 30 years.

It's not a problem with THIS particular russia. It's a problem with all of the russians.

[scarlettjane22]

Polatsk - Belarusian harness stallion

Valeria Korotkevich

[cooltrainererika]

Alt-talia Compilation: A Collection Of Shorts

For @aphrarepairweek2020

Okay... so I’m cheating again. So this is yet another post where I repost prompt fills from my fanfiction.net profile. But I really wanted to get stuff out for one of these pairs but couldn’t come up with anything.

This is yet another one for Free Prompt; none of the prompts matched.

I swear I wanted to get something for Music... maybe next time. I do want to release a set of new Hetalia Emblem supports before the event is truly over though!

Most of these are platonic except for LitBel and Phil -> Kor. Though one of these pairs, one of my BrOTPs in fact, Turkey and South Korea, literally has zero content. I really like the idea of them as friends, and while the prompt here may not be entirely historically accurate right now, it does have basis in historical and modern fact. I like to dub this duo KimchiKebab; it’s a catchy name if you ask me. Also, for once, I’m using non-canon countries! Here we have Serbia and Montenegro of Yugotalia fame and Brazil and Argentina of Latin Hetalia, though I’m not sure if I’m using those exact designs.

But Augh I would have liked to post more actual ships... (I’ve been planning on writing Rome x Ancient Greece for a long time now but that has never materialized, i would have liked writing more fluffy LitBel, maybe show Poland and Ukraine’s marriage before it went up in flames, written this Den -> Fem!Nor <- Swe fic I’ve had the idea for a while now, actually finish BBDR, some Fem!EngPort...) but alas, University happens.

I really hope I can get those supports done soon...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KB9uLm9NSAvTosnAl_HcAa6jdMajdaL4uCyj1ZCfuWg

[unhonestlymirror]

Once again I have to use this picture:

"Rus' principalities" - so pretentious, so unserious. As if they were United States of America or something. Most of them, despite being Kyiv's colonies, were culturally different, like Novgorod (still not russian, tho!!), constantly fighting each other. Polatsk Principality (medieval Baltic Belarus) actually succeeded to be independent from Kyiv, thanks to Ŭsiasłaŭ the Sorcerer - but in 1186, Crusaders came with the notorious Maynard (see "Lāčplēsis"), built Riga, made Latvian Baltics their slaves, and although Polatsk with Lithuanians tried to rescue livs and others, they didn't succeed, and a big part of Polatsk was occupied by Germans. But that's for another chapter.

P.S. Da Hell is "Rashka"? XD There was never such a Principality. "Rashka" is a neologism born from the TV show "Nasha Rasha", a derogatory synonym for "russia" (russia didn't exist in 1180).

UPD. Oh, I see, it's about Serbia... don't have a lot of knowledge about it, so idk. Placing it near Kyivan Ruthenia is weird.

Europe in 1180

by dodi_maps