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	Igor Svyatoslavich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		In 1171, Igor led his first campaign against the Polovtsians; it was a success.
		In 1185, Khan Konchak attacked the Rus, and in response Igor amassed a force of some 6,000-8,000 soldiers to retaliate against the Polovtsians.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Igor_Svyatoslavich (340 words)

	Prince Igor
		The Russian princes are at odds and the Polovtsian hordes are invading Russia.
		Polovtsian girls sing and dance attempting to entertain Konchakovna, daughter of the Khan Konchak.
		The Polovtsian Khan Konchak treats Prince Igor with the deference due to an honored guest, and promises him freedom if he agrees to never take up his sword against the Polovtsians again.
	www.ucis.pitt.edu /opera/ROB/igor/igor.htm (829 words)

	Leonid Mosendz. Ievshan-Zillia, the Magic Herb
		Polovtsian arrows stuck in the chain mail of the Rus', spears broke against their shields, and when a Rus' warrior fell, an impregnable wall of shields closed the gap.
		Now the Polovtsians gladly received all of them, because many temples needed to be built for the Rus' gods, as well as palaces for the chieftains and khans; brick had to be baked, stone cut, wood carved, and cloth weaved.
		Peace and quiet now prevailed in the Polovtsian land, and it was a crime to call upon the Polovtsians to fight their dear Rus' brothers just because of some forgotten glory of the Polovtsian tribe.
	www.shevchenko.org /Ukr_Lit/Vol01/01-11.html (4274 words)

	The Lay of Igor’s Campaign and the Works It Has Inspired (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Polovtsians are angered, but the Khun will not let them pursue Igor because he is a brave man, and besides, if the situation had been switched, the Khun would have tried to escape just as Igor did.
		In the end Vladimir marries the Khun’s daughter, and surprisingly a treaty is made between the Rus and the Polovtsians.
		Igor is wounded in the battle and he and his son are surrounded by Polovtsians and taken prisoner.
	www.sras.org /news2.phtml?m=478 (5367 words)

	Taipei Times - archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Russia's Prince Igor is captured by the Polovtsians, but their leader, Khan Konchak, is a generous-hearted, if rather gross, individual.
		Most interesting of all is the resurrection of Mikhail Fokhine's original Ballets Russes choreography for the famous Polovtsian Dances (which conclude the first disc).
		The other highlight is Act 2, Scene 2 (the second scene on the second disc), a tremendously powerful scene between Yaroslavna and Vladimir, followed by the dramatic arrival of the venerable boyars.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/feat/archives/2003/11/07/2003074989/print (874 words)

	“And the princes began to plot sedition against each other...” "ДЕНЬ" (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Owing to the campaigns organized by Monomakh and Sviatopolk against the Polovtsians, the incursions of the steppe tribes into the Rus’ lands were halted, and this had a positive influence on its development.
		The Polovtsian hordes, who had been driven beyond the Don, Volga and Yaik rivers, resumed their devastations of the Slavic territories as the allies of one of the princes.
		While the main theme of the Kyivan Chronicle for nearly half a century was the discord among the princes, the chronicler does not record any conflict during the joint rule of the two princes.
	www.day.kiev.ua.cob-web.org:8888 /169335 (1402 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Roman was a descendent of Mstislav who was slain by the Polovtsians, who merged with the Mongols.
		Kobiak: Polovtsian prince who was taken prisoner during the attack led by united Russian forces under Sviatoslav's leadership in 1184.
		Vladimir: son of Gleb; Rimov: a city on the Sula River that was ravaged by the Polovtsians.
	www.dickinson.edu /~lemelinc/ras100/Igor.htm (368 words)

	Who Were The Kipchaks?
		The early Turkic tribes warred incessantly with each other and with the Mongols, with the result that the Kipchaks were gradually driven westward from China and Mongolia, through today's Kazakhstan, and into the region between the Volga and Don Rivers, in today's Russia and Ukraine, a migratory process that lasted for perhaps 500 years.
		Included in the opera are the famous Polovtsian Dances, and here we are talking about the Kipchaks.
		But the most memorable, or most infamous, date in the history of the Kipchaks took place in the year 1347, in Crimea, a peninsula on the north shore of the Black Sea.
	www.useless-knowledge.com /1234/apr/article212.html (652 words)

	Missoulian - An Evening of Russian and Russian-American music
		The opera depicts a 12th-century war between the Russians (led by Prince Igor) and the Polovtsians of Central Asia (led by Khan Korchak).
		Specifically, the Polovtsian leader suggests that the two of them should form a military alliance so that they can subjugate other nations.
		From the beginning, the "Polovtsian Dances" has had a life of its own, independent of the opera from which it came.
	www.missoulian.com /articles/2004/02/12/entertainer/ent01b.txt (922 words)

	Russian Courier // Information //
		During the autumn, in company with men of Chernigov, as well as Polovtsians and Chiteeviches, we captured the city and left in it neither slaves nor cattle.
		The Polovtsians showed their teeth at us, as they stood like wolves at the fords and in the hills.
		I freed from their captivity the best Polovtsian princes, including two brothers of Sharukan, three brothers of Bagubars, four brothers of Ovchin, and one hundred of their foremost leaders.
	www.russiancourier.com /en/info/history/48646 (3227 words)

	Kalka River 1223: Genghiz Khan's Mongols Invade Russia (Campaign Series, 98.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Nicolle points out that the Polovtsians had light and heavy cavalry that was equal in mobility to the Mongol cavalry and in the advance to the Kalka River, the Allied covering force three times defeated Mongol cavalry rearguards.
		Furthermore, the Allies were defeated by the shock effect of a sudden charge of Mongol heavy cavalry that crumpled the Polovtsian advance guard and spread panic throughout the Russian army.
		One is not only introduced to the Mongols, but also with the Russian and polovtsian men at arms as well, everything based on careful examinations along with the most recent archelogical findings.
	www.textbooksrus.com /search/bookdetail/?isbn=1841762334 (1401 words)

	Nicon the Dry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		When the saint refused the ransom, his master began to torment him with hunger and left him out in the heat in summer and in the frost in winter.
		But the Venerable one thanked God for everything and once said to the tormentor that the Lord, by the prayers of Venerable Anthony and Theodosius, would return him to the monastery, as the Venerable Eustratius, who had appeared to him, had foretold.
		The Polovtsian cut the tendons of St. Nicon's legs and set a reinforced watch.
	www.stjohndc.org /russian/Saints/e_9712c.htm (250 words)

	Soviet Union - The Mongol Invasion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		During its fragmentation, Kievan Rus' faced its greatest threat from invading Mongols.
		An army from Kievan Rus', together with the Turkic Polovtsians, met a Mongol raiding party in 1223 at the Kalka River.
		The army of Kievan Rus' and its Polovtsian allies were soundly defeated.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-12412.html (477 words)

	In Performance; DANCE - New York Times
		Borodin's "Prince Igor" is blessed with one of the most stirring dance episodes in the operatic repertory: the savage second-act revel in the camp of the Polovtsian warriors.
		Honoring the past, he borrowed a few choreographic motifs from Fokine: for instance, sequences for leaping warriors who seem ready to shoot bows, and a scene in which young people slap their bodies with excitement while they cavort.
		Ethan Stiefel, a soloist from City Ballet, brought fine elevation to the role of the Polovtsian Chieftain, and there were capable performances by Deanna McBrearty as a Polovtsian Maiden and Anna Liceica as an Oriental Slave.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9804E1DD143DF930A35753C1A962958260 (252 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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)

	EuroScope: On-Line Guides: Ukraine: Zaporizhya
		In the 4th century A.D. the territory was siezed by a nomad tribe of Huns, in the 6th century Avarians came, then - Khazars.
		After the defeat of Khazar Caganate (State) by Kyiv Prince Svyatoslav in 966 A.D. the territory fell under the control of the Polovtsians.
		In the beginning of the 12th century the Ukrainian Princes gathered on the Khortytsya Island, launched the campaign against Polovtsians and defeated them in the battle of the Molochna River.
	pages.prodigy.net /euroscope/zaporizhya.html (633 words)

	Eighteenth Century Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Originally published in 1800, the Slovo (Lay, as it is generally called) was hailed as a significant find relating to ancient "Russian" history and represented the culmination of a trend that had begun largely in the sixteenth century where Muscovite chroniclers began to appropriate Old Rus' history exclusively for the Russian Empire.
		The Slovo is the tale of a failed military campaign by Ihor Sviatoslavych in 1185 against the Polovtsians (a nomadic Turkic people of the Steppe, with whom the Rus' contended before the Mongol invasion).
		It contains elements of an epic oral tradition and is purported to have been written down by the bard Boian.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~huri/ucrainica/18_sum.html (454 words)

	Russian Regional Centers, Regional Center in Russia on RussiansAbroad.com
		As the members of that clan became more numerous, they identified themselves with regional interests rather than with the larger patrimony.
		Thus, the princes fought among themselves, frequently forming alliances with outside groups such as the Polovtsians, Poles, and Hungarians.
		The Crusades brought a shift in European trade routes that accelerated the decline of Kievan Rus'.
	www.russiansabroad.com /russian_history_20.html (580 words)

	Ballet Nacional de Cuba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Danzas Polovtsianas belong to the second act of the opera The prince Igor, of Borodin, inspired by a Russian poem of the Middle Age entitled Of The Band of Igor, they represent the parties offered by the Khan to the prisoner prince Igor Sviatos-lavich.
		In the ballet version, these two characters don`t appear and the scene begins in the polovtsian camp when the warriors stretch to the dawn of a new day.
		First the dance is slow and in a gradual way it goes gaining force.
	www.balletcuba.cu /ingles/repertoriomuestraing.asp?codepage=15 (112 words)

	The State Hermitage Museum: Exhibitions
		The display includes some 1,000 items made between the 13th and 15th centuries by craftsmen of the Ulus Juchi or Golden Horde - the westernmost of the states that formed after the death of Genghis Khan in the territories of which he was master.
		A distinctive culture formed there in which nomadic and sedentary features combined and the achievements of the many different peoples dwelling in the state - Mongols, Persians, Polovtsians, Volga Bulgars, Slavs and others - blended.
		The greater portion of artefacts known to us at present come from archaeological excavations carried out in the 19th and 20th centuries on the sites of Golden Horde settlements and graves.
	www.hermitagemuseum.org /html_En/12/b2003/hm12_3_1.html (407 words)

	Kirov Opera Prince Igor, a CurtainUp review
		After Yaroslavna's poignant pleading with natural forces for Prince Igor's return from captivity with the Polovtsian tribes, there is an emotional duet of reunion.
		That this quiet ending for Prince Igor better matches Borodin's intent is supported by the comment the composer penned in the margin of his sketches, that in the historical record the Russians were never able to decisively defeat their Central Asian rival.
		The Polovtsian camp consists of tall transparent tents with a starry background.
	www.curtainup.com /kirovig.html (986 words)

	Saunders. History of Medieval Islam
		The Turkish family of nations first emerged into the light of history in the mid-sixth century, when they built up a short-lived nomad empire in the heart of Asia, the steppes which have ever since borne the name Turkestan, the land of the Turks.
		When it broke in pieces, in the manner of such confederacies, fragments of the Turkish race, under a bewildering variety of names, were scattered over a vast area, from the Uighurs, who once dwelt in Mongolia, to the Polovtsians of the Russian steppes, familiar to us from Borodin's opera Pnnce Igor.
		The Oxus was the traditional boundary between civilization and barbarism in Western Asia, between Iran and Turan, and Persian legend, versified in Firdawsi's great epic, the Shah-namah, told of the heroic battles of the Iranians against the Turanian king Afrasi- yab, who was at last hunted down and killed in Azerbaijan.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/med/saunders.html (3955 words)

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		He was very wealthy, but, moved by the love of Christ, gave away all his goods for His sake, entered the Monastery of the Caves and became a monk.
		When the Polovtsians conquered Kiev in 1097, they looted the monastery, slew many Christians and monks and gave Eustratius and other of the faithful to a certain Jew in the town of Khorsun as slaves.
		This Jew mocked the Christian faith and tried to compel the Christians to convert to the Jewish faith.
	www.pomog.org /prologue/April/10.htm (643 words)

	Mongol invasion in Russia, the Mongol invasion of Russia, shogun Mongol invasion, total war Russian Mongol invasion on ...
		As it was undergoing fragmentation, Kievan Rus' faced its greatest threat from invading Mongols.
		In 1223 an army from Kievan Rus', together with a force of Turkic Polovtsians, faced a Mongol raiding party at the Kalka River.
		Then, in 1237-38, a much larger Mongol force overran much of Kievan Rus'.
	www.russiansabroad.com /russian_history_21.html (390 words)

	Polovtsians - OneLook Dictionary Search (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Polovtsians - OneLook Dictionary Search (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu)
		We found one dictionary with English definitions that includes the word Polovtsians:
		Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "Polovtsians" is defined.
	onelook.com.cob-web.org:8888 /?w=Polovtsians&ls=a (76 words)

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		Its first performance took place in St. Petersburg in 1890.
		In the story, Prince Igor, a twelfth century warrior' is captured by the Polovtsians but eventually escapes.
		This oriental inspired music shows, again, how easily Alexander Abt can adapt to very different styles of music.
	www.lycos.com /info/alexander-borodin.html (552 words)

	Funagain Games: Devil's Horsemen
		The Devil's Horsemen features basic rules for both regular and SimpleGBoH play.
		The Devil's Horsemen presents a truly colorful array of armies for you to lead into battle: there are 10 full tumen (divisions) of Mongols, plus Polovtsians, Galicians, Chernigovians, Kievans, Persian Khwarazmians, Poles, Silesians, Bohemians, the great Teutonic Knights, and the first army to ever significantly defeat the Mongols, The Mamluks.
		These mighty armies show up in four great battles of the period (ranging from battles needing ½ mapsheet to two full-mapsheets).
	www.funagain.com /control/product/~product_id=015618 (626 words)

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