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  Igor Svyatoslavich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Igor Svyatoslavich (April 3, 1151–1202) was the prince of Novhorod-Siversky from 1180 to 1202.
Igor was the son of Svyatoslav Olgovich, and a grandson of Oleg of Chernigov.
His princely name was Igor, in honor of his uncle Igor II of Kiev, but his baptismal name was George, in honor of his father's ally George the Long-Armed.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Igor_Svyatoslavich   (340 words)

  
 Igor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Igor is a given name derived from the Scandinavian name Ingyar, that was brought to ancient Russia by the Vikings (Ingvar or Yngvar).
Igor I of Kiev, ruler of Kiev from 912 to 945.
Prince Igor is an opera by Alexander Borodin based on the life of Igor Svyatoslavich.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Igor   (244 words)

  
 Russian history - The Lay of the Host of Igor
Written on the occasion of Prince Igor's unfortunate campaign against the Polovetsians in 1185, "The Lay of the Host of Igor" is unanimously acclaimed as the highest achievement in Russian literature of the Kievan era.
Igor's brother, "Wild Ox" Vsevolod, the most dashingly heroic personage in Prince Igor, sided with Svyatoslav, and the Russians pitched camp for the night.
Igor, who had been wounded in the arm and was on his horse, set out at a gallop to rally them.
www.artrusse.ca /History/host_igor.htm   (1648 words)

  
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While the deserters Skula and Yeroshka sing the praises of Galitzky, urging the deposing of Igor, Princess Yaroslavna laments her husband's departure.
Prince Igor and his son are captured by Khan Konchak, and Vladimir falls in love with the Khan's daughter Konchakovna.
The opera ends with the return of Prince Igor to his own city, welcomed by Princess Yaroslavna, and, with less certainty, by the duplicitous Skula and Yeroshka, who spread the good news of their prince's return.
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 The Kiev Chronicle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Igor was at that time on horseback, for he was wounded, and he followed them up, trying to bring them back to the army.
While Igor was held captive, he saw his brother fighting mightily, and in his heart he implored for his own death that he might not see his brother fall dead; but Vsevolod was fighting until he had no weapons left in his hands, and they were fighting around a lake.
Igor was captured by the Targolans, by a man named Chilbuk; his brother Vsevolod was taken by Roman Kzich, Svyatoslav Olgovich by Eldechyuk of the Boburcheviches, and Vladimir by Kopti of the Ulasheviches.
lamar.colostate.edu /~aksmith/HY438/igor.htm   (2461 words)

  
 Saint Luke Orthodox Church - Saints - Saints by Day - January - 1st
Saint Igor, by the will of God involved in the struggle for the Kiev principality, by his deed of martyrdom would redeem the legacy of the sin of princely strife.
Igor said to him: "Yoi, brother, wilt thou forsake me?" Vladimir jumped down from his horse, wanting to help, and covered him with his "korzno" (princely cloak) while saying to the Kievans: "Brethren, no murder!".
But the people broke down the gates, and catching sight of Igor "in the lofts" (closed gallery on the second floor in old Kievan garretts), they smashed open the loft, dragging down the holy martyr and murdering him on the lower steps of the stairway.
www.stlukeorthodox.com /html/saints/september/19th.cfm   (3845 words)

  
 Ukraine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Igor was reputedly the son of Rurik (see Novgorod) and Oleg his regent and guardian, but Khazar documents (the Schechter Letter) refer to Oleg as contemporaneous with Emperor Romanus (940's) and places his death around 941.
Igor was killed in 945 while attempting to collect tribute from the Derevlian tribe.
Igor II the Brave.................................1180-1202 with ?, or opposed by ?...
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 Igor's Campaign
The Tale of Igor's Campaign is an anonymous masterpiece of East Slavic literature written in the Old East Slavic language and tentatively dated to the end of 12th century.
It is also occasionally translated as The Song of Igor's Campaign and The Lay of Igor's Campaign.
Igor's wife Yaroslavna famously invokes pagan gods from the walls of Putyvl, although some Christian motifs are also present.
www.skumanich.net /IgorsCampaign.htm   (1266 words)

  
 BORODIN Prince Igor NAXOS 8.111071-73 [GF]: Classical CD Reviews- July 2005 MusicWeb-International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In the prologue Prince Igor and his son Vladimir decide to fight the Polovtsian intruders who are approaching the town of Putivl.
In act 1 Prince Galitsky, Igor’s brother-in-law, who is in charge during Igor’s absence, torments and oppresses the people and rapes the women.
Igor returns and the people unite in renewed hope that they will eventually win the war.
www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2005/July05/Borodin_Igor_8111071.htm   (1691 words)

  
 My Lines - Name Index 62
Igor I Rurikovich, Grand Prince of Kiev, b.
Igor Svyatoslavich, Prince of Novgorod and Chernigov, b.
Vsevolod IV Bolshoi Gnezdo Svyatoslavich (Prince of Chernigov and Kiev) b.
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The Ol'govichi were called such after the name of Oleg Svyatoslavich (+1115), termed because of his bitter ["gore"] fate "Gorislavich".
Igor said to him: "Yoi, brother, wilt thou forsake me?" Vladimir jumped down from his horse, wanting to help, and covered him with his "korzno" [princely cloak] while saying to the Kievans: "Brethren, no murder!" "And Vladimir did lead Igor' to the palace of his mother, and they began to rush forth against Vladimir".
The wonderworking icon of the Mother of God, named the Igorevsk, before which the martyr prayed before his murder, is located in the Great Uspenie church of the Kievo-Pechersk Lavra (celebration of the icon is 5 June).
www.missionstclare.com /english/people/sep19o.html   (4744 words)

  
 The Tale of the Armament of Igor Index
Then Igor gazed up at the bright sun, and saw all his warriors covered with the darkness [that proceeded] out of it.
In 1185 a minor skirmish between the Polovtsi and Igor Svyatoslavich, a noble of Chernigov, a city in what it today the Ukraine, was immortalized in this poem.
This was not a strategic battle: Igor had marched with his brothers on a grudge, having been excluded from a larger expedition, and the encounter with the enemy was purely impromptu.
www.sacred-texts.com /neu/tai/index.htm   (674 words)

  
 My Lines - Person Page 367
Igor Svyatoslavich, Prince of Novgorod and Chernigov was a cousin of Svyatoslav III, Great Prince of Kiev.
He was the son of Igor Svyatoslavich, Prince of Novgorod and Chernigov.
Prince of Trubchevsk Vsevolod Svyatoslavich of Rus was born circa 1152.
homepages.rootsweb.com /~cousin/html/p367.htm   (4991 words)

  
 Prince Igor Goes to War
And so the two brave sons of Svyatoslav, Igor and Vsevolod, by their willfulness Awakened the evil that their father Svyatoslav, The awesome Grand Prince of Kiev, Had lulled by his might.
You force the gates of Kiev, And from the Golden Throne of your fathers You shoot at the sultan in a distant land.
Lord, shoot at Konchak, the infidel slave, for the revenge of the Russian land, for the wounds of Igor, the wounds of the valiant son of Sviatoslav.
www.angelfire.com /pro2/politcentr/prince-igor.html   (3240 words)

  
 Cumans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The field of Igor Svyatoslavich's battle with the Kypchaks by Viktor Vasnetsov
While the Cumans were gradually assimilated into eastern European populations, their trace can still be found in placenames as widespread as the city of Kumanovo in the Northeastern part of the Republic of Macedonia, Comăneşti in Romania and Comana in Dobruja.
For the Russian relations with the Cumans (in Russian: Polovtsy), see the Battle of the Stugna River, the Battle of the Kalka River, and the Tale of Igor's Campaign.
en.wikilib.org /wiki/Cumans   (621 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Basically the story details a failed campaign in 1185 led by Kniaz Igor Svyatoslavich of Novhorod Siverskyy against the Polovtsians (Cumans) that lived in the southern part of Don.
The entire tale is laden with pleas for unity amongst the Russian princes in light of the threat emanating from the Turkic east.
This image is a painting of the field of battle between Igor and the Polovtsy, detailing his loss.
www.personal.psu.edu /students/j/l/jlm699/step2.htm   (702 words)

  
 Informat.io on Old East Slavic Language
We now come to the famous Lay of Igor's Campaign, which narrates the expedition of Igor Svyatoslavich, prince of Novhorod-Siverskyi against the Cumans.
Any Christian influence is hard to trace, whereas pagan gods and deities are famously invoked by Igor's grieving wife, Yaroslavna, from the walls of Putyvl.
Of the whole bulk of the Old East Slavic literature, the Lay is the only work familiar to every educated Russian or Ukrainian.
www.quaest.io /?title=old-east-slavic-language   (1944 words)

  
 Footnotrs: Revelations of the Diplomatic History of the 18th Century
His successor Igor made war on Byzantium on two occasions, in 941 and 944, which resulted in the conclusion of a trade agreement in 944.
95 Anna, the daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Romanus II, was married to Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich of Kiev (who after baptism adopted the name of Vasily) in 987, after her father’s death, by her brother, the Byzantine Emperor Basil II (976-1025).
The name of Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich is connected with the adoption of Christianity in Kiev Russia (988-989) and the latter’s growing might.
www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1857/russia/notes.htm   (4880 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Indicative of the development of the Ukrainian state and significant in the development of Ukrainian culture, “The Tale of Ihor’s Campaign,” written by an anonymous author, is the most important piece of Ukrainian literature to date.
Based on a failed raid of Kniaz Igor Svyatoslavich of Novhorod-Siverskyy against the Polovtsians, also known as Cumans, residing in the southern part of the Don region in 1185.
Similar, in plot to another epic poem, the French “The Song of Roland,” Ihor is lured into a battle he cannot win, yet is able to return home after merely escaping his enemies.
www.personal.psu.edu /jfs217/ihor.html   (473 words)

  
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David Svyatoslavich Doke Chernigov and Mrs- Feodosiya Duchess Of Chernigov
Born: Abt 1060 - Of Chernigov, Chernigov, Ukrain
Yaroslav Pankratij Svyatoslavich Duke Chernigov and Mrs-Yaroslav Pankratij Duchess Chernigov
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 Zaklyuchenie: Istoricheskie sud'by Drevnei Rusi
Eto tot Vladimir Galickii, zabuldyga i brazhnik, obraz kotorogo tak krasochno vosproizveden v opere Borodina “Knyaz' Igor'”.
Igor' Svyatoslavich byl zhenat na ego sestre Evfrosin'e, docheri Yaroslava Osmomysla (Yaroslavne).
Harakterno, chto Igor' poboyalsya sam yavit'sya na veche, ne reshilsya i proignorirovat' “priglashenie”.
www.lants.tellur.ru:8106 /history/danilevsky/d09.htm   (1762 words)

  
 The Red Kaganate - Russo-Polovetz Wars
1094 - Oleg Svyatoslavich unites with the Polovtsi to expell Vladimir Monomakh from Chernigov.
In turn, Monomakh kills Polovetz khans Itlar and Kitan, destroying their holdings.
A joint Russian force then goes into the Steppes under the leadership of Svyatoslav Vsevolodovich and Rurik Rostislavich.
www.geocities.com /kaganate/plvtstml.html   (1068 words)

  
 Svyatopolk I (ii) Kiev / Countess Killikiya Of Dithmarschen
Name: David Svyatoslavich Doke Chernigov Born: Abt 1055 at Of Chernigov, Chernigov, Ukraine Died: Jan 1122-1123 Wife: Mrs- Feodosiya Duchess Of Chernigov
Name: Oleg Mikahil Svyatoslavich Chernigov Born: Abt 1058 at Of Chernigov, Chernigov, Ukraine Died: August 01, 1115 Wife: Theophano Mouzalonissa
Name: Yaroslav Pankratij Svyatoslavich Duke Chernigov Born: Abt 1060 at Of Chernigov, Chernigov, Ukrain Died: 1129 at MD Wife: Mrs-yaroslav Pankratij Duchess Chernigov
www.e-familytree.net /F14/F14133.htm   (380 words)

  
 Tmutarakan' by Sergei V. Rjabchikov - English
The signs inscribed on the fragment of a Tmutarakan' (Tamatarha) vessel are a Scandinavian trace in the history of this town.
According to the record on a seal, Prince Oleg was an archon (ruler) of Matraha (Tmutarakan'), Zihia and all the Khazars (Yanin 1970: 26; Bogoslovsky 1993: 52).
Several years had passed, and in 1185 Prince Igor Svyatoslavich of Novgorod Seversky, a grandson of Prince Oleg Svyatoslavich, attempted to join Tmutarakan' to his principality, otherwise poiskati grada T'mutorokanya 'to search for the town Tmutarakan''.
public.kubsu.ru /~usr02898/tmtrkn.htm   (11278 words)

  
 brief history of Russia - The Mongols   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Igor Svyatoslavich, prince of Novgorod-Seversk (1178) and of Chernigov (1198), fought the Polovetzy unsuccessfully in 1185.
(He is the Prince Igor made famous in the Borodin opera.)
Part of the Kievan Rus principality of Vladimir-Suzdal, Pereyaslavl became an independent principality during the early 13th century.
www.worldhistoryplus.com /r/russia1.htm   (605 words)

  
 Pages of history of the Bryansk Region, Part2 (English)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
It referred in a great ancient Russian poem, "The Word about Igor's Army".
This poem called the princes of the Slavonic Lands to join forces for resistance of the approaching Tatar invasion.
This poem also glorified the courage of army of Vsevolod Svyatoslavich, the Prince of Trubchevsk and of Kursk.
www.admin.debryansk.ru /~press/histore2.html   (1432 words)

  
 Glossary_for_lecture1_RussArt
He took Kiev from Rurik’s broghers and moved the capital of Rus from Novgorod to Kiev
Igor (Rurikovich), 912-945, and Olga,?-969; Olga embraced Christianity
Vladimir I of Kiev (Svyatoslavich), 980-1015, adopts Christianity in 988
students.risd.edu /faculty/evarshav/Glossary_for_lecture1_RussArt.html   (604 words)

  
 Music
Prince Igor: Act I: Finale; Act II Finale of Act I
Act II: Recitative of Prince Igor and Konchak
Act IV: Recitative of Yaroslavna and duet with Igor
plaza.ufl.edu /danahill/details/10133.html   (114 words)

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