Boris Godunov and the Tricolor Flag

[Michael Marsh-Soloway]

Dear Colleagues,

These are all very interesting examples. Thank you for your responses.

Sincerely,
Michael Marsh-Soloway

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Michael Marsh-Soloway
<mam7cd at virginia.edu>wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Thank you for your responses! These are all very interesting examples.
>
> Sincerely,
> Michael Marsh-Soloway
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:51 AM, FRISON Philippe <Philippe.FRISON at coe.int>wrote:
>
>> Dear Michel,
>>
>> A very interseting question indeed!
>>
>> Here is a Web page with Russian flags since Ivan Grozny times :
>> http://ruek.narod.ru/simvolika/flagirus/flagirus.html
>>
>> Philippe Frison
>> (Strasbourg, France)
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
>> [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Katya Jordan
>> Sent: Thursday 4 November 2010 15:25
>> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
>> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Boris Godunov and the Tricolor Flag
>>
>> Dear Michael,
>>
>> Those are some interesting questions.  The first tricolor flag appeared
>> in
>> Peter's time-I believe there is no argument about that among historians.
>> I do
>> not pretend to know the mind of those who decided to use a tricolor in
>> the
>> production in question, but I would suppose that it was done
>> deliberately.
>> Here is why.  I remember in the early 1990s, soon after the Coup, an
>> actor
>> Gennady Khazanov doing a stage performance-something like a one-man
>> comedy routine-where he made fun of politicians of the time, likening
>> the
>> time after the coup of 1991 to the Time of Troubles.  Moreover, he
>> specifically
>> described "narod" chanting "Borisku na tsarstvo!  Borisku na tsarstvo!"
>> Of
>> course, in the 1990s that meant Boris Yeltsin, but the historical
>> parallel that
>> Khazanov was making was quite apparent to those familiar with the
>> Russian
>> history.  Besides, I can personally attest that the 1990s did indeed
>> feel like
>> the Time of Troubles in many ways.
>>
>> --Katya
>>
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