Россия – Russia: A Taste of Culture

Ten things everyone should know about RussiaLanguage & Literature

Material Culture Russian Music, then and today

7th Grade Workshop in GeographySouth Junior High SchoolLawrence Public Schools (USD 497)March 26 and April 12-13, 2010

Presented by Jon C. GiullianLibrarian for Slavic & Eurasian Studies

University of Kansas Libraries

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Ten things everyone should know about Russia

RUSSIAN FACTS

1. How many time zones does Russia cover?

11 9

2. What is the most popular sport in Russia

Soccer Hockey

3. What is the capital city of Russia? St. Petersburg Moscow

4. How do you pronounce the name for grandmother

baboooshka baaabushka

5. Who is the father of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution?

Joseph Stalin Vladimir Lenin

Ten things everyone should know about Russia (continued)

RUSSIAN FACTS

6. Who is the most powerful politician in Russia today?

Vladimir Putin

Dmitrii Medvedev

7. Where will the 2014 Winter Olympics take place?

Moscow Sochi

8. Who is the Father of Russian literature?

Leo Tolstoy Alexander Pushkin

9. What is borshch? breed of dog beet soup

20. Who was the first man in space? Watch RFE/RL

Neil Armstrong

Yurii Gagarin

Language & Literature

1. Winnie the Pooh in Russian

2. Russian Poetry Умом Россию не понять,

Аршином общим не измерить:

У ней особенная стать —

В Россию можно только верить.

Fedor Tiutchev (1803-1873)

RUSSIAN ARTIFACTS

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Exploring material culture

1. What object did you choose?

2. Why did you choose the object?

3. What is this object’s significance in Russian culture?

RUSSIAN ARTIFACTS

RUSSIAN MUSIC

Folk Music

Classical Music

Bards

Legends of Russian Rock

Modern Pop

MUSIC: Russian Folk

The Firebird

Balalaika

Quartet

Russian folk music & dance – “Kalinka”

MUSIC: Russian Classical

Пётр Чайковский(Piotr Chaikovskii) Peter Tchaikovsky

• What do the 4th of July, the Nutcracker, and Russia have in common?

Russian Dance - percussion 1812 Overture

MUSIC: Russian Bards

Владимир Высоцкий

(Vladimir Vysotskii)

Songs:

Москва-Одесса (Moskva-Odessa)

Moscow OdessaЯ не люблю (Ya ne liubliu)

I don’t like/love

Машина Времени (Mashina Vremeni) Time Machine

Songs:

Улетай (Uletai)Fly Away

MUSIC: Russian Rock

MUSIC: Russian Rock

ДДТ (DDT)Юрий Шевчук

(Yurii Shevchuk)Songs:

Pождённые в СССP (Rozhdyonnye v SSSR)

Born in the USSR

Пропавший без вестu (Propavshii bez vesti)

Lost without a traceDDT in Chechnya 2 Young soldiers from all over Russia “They told us to go, and we went. Nobody needs this war! To this day I cannot understand what we are fighting for. That’s my personal opinion.”

MUSIC: Russian Pop

Андрей Губин(Andrei Gubin)

Born: Ufa, Russia 1974

Songs:

Мальчик-Бродяга (Mal’chik-Brodyaga)

Boy-Wanderer

Мурат Насыров (Murat Nasyrov)Born: Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, 1969

Died: Moscow, Russia, 2007

Ethnicity - Uyghur

Songs:

Я Это Ты (Ya Eto Ty)

I am you

MUSIC: Russian Pop

Explore contemporary Russian

music Far From Moscow:

MUSIC: Contemporary Scene

19:84 (rock, post-punk) – Time is Running Out, With Me

A'Studio / А'Студио (jazz) – Wings of Joy, Fashion Girl

Bubamara Brass Band ( jazz, pop-folk) – Kashtani zma

Demokracy – (techno, electronic) – Zone

Knara – (r&b, rap) – I’ll Reach My Goal

Россия – Russia: A Cultural Taste

Ten things everyone should know about RussiaLanguage & Literature

Material Culture Russian Music, then and today

7th Grade Workshop in GeographySouth Junior High SchoolLawrence Public Schools (USD 497)March 26 and April 12-13, 2010

Presented by Jon C. GiullianLibrarian for Slavic & Eurasian Studies

University of Kansas Libraries

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