Cossack Mamay
Cossack Mamay[1] or Kozak Mamai[2] (Ukrainian: Козак Мамай, in less significant variants also named as Cossack banduryst) is a Ukrainian folkloric hero, one of the standard characters in traditional Ukrainian itinerant puppet theater, the Vertep.
Historical overview
"Cossack-Bandurist", "Cossack-Zaporozhets", "Cossack Mamai" - these are all names of paintings of the same type. The general features of the composition and the main image, their existence for several centuries in Ukrainian lands allow us to consider these works as traditional folk paintings. There are several options for them. But in all cases, the basis of the composition is always the figure of a Cossack, who mostly sits with his legs crossed.[4]
The largest collections of this work are preserved and exhibited by the National Art Museum of Ukraine, the Dnipro Historical Museum named after Dmytro Yavornytskyi, and the Ukrainian Center of Folk Culture "Ivan Honchar Museum".
Gallery
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18th century
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18th century
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1728
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19th century
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Crimea 1780/1840
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19th century
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Cossack Mamay and theHaidamaka. 19th century
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1855
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1890
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David Burliuk, 1912
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2003
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Coin obverse
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Coin, reverse
Cossack Mamay in art
Literature
- No End to Cossack Kin - a novel by Olexandr Ilchenko.
- Mamay - a historical verse novel by Leonid Gorlach.
- The Cossack Mamay Myth - collection of poems by Ihor Kalynets.
Movie
In 2003, director Oles Sanin made the film Mamay at the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Film Studio.
Music
In music, the image of Cossack Mamay was reflected in the songs of contemporary Ukrainian bands Komu Vnyz, and Vopli Vidoplyasova.
Street art
During the
Cossack Mamay coin
On the 1997 coin minted by National Bank of Ukraine, Cossack Mamay is dressed in a rich coat with fur and sits with his legs crossed, smoking a pipe and playing a kobza. Traditional elements of Cossack military life are around Mamay: a horse with rich harness, tied to a spear with a flag planted into the ground; a green oak tree with a sabre hanging from it; a pistol and a stone powder case; Turkish kalpak (high hat), and a bottle of okovyta (Ukrainian for aqua vitae).
The
The Mamay coin is from the "Heroes of the Cossack Age" series, Ukrainian commemorative and jubilee coins.
See also
- History of the Cossacks
- Zaporizhian Host
- Kobzar
References
- ^ Олександр Галенко Рецензія на: Козак Мамай: феномен одного образу Студії мистецтвознавчі. – К.: Iнститут мистецтвознавства, фольклористики та етнології iм. М.Т.Рильського НАН України, 2009. – №1 (25)
- ISBN 978-1-4875-0263-8.
- ^ "COSSACK MAMAY: One Image Phenomenology"-Stanislav Bushak (Rodovid-Oranta 2008), pp. 245–293
- ^ "Запорозьке гайдамацтво XVIII століття як традиційний здобичницький промисел козацтва - Володимир Мільчев - Тека авторів". Чтиво. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
- Бушак С. М. Сміхова культура українського народу у творах «Козак Мамай» та «Запорожцях» Іллі Рєпіна // Скарбниця української культури. Збірка наукових праць. — Вип. 3. / Чернігівский історичний музей. – Чернігів: Сіверянська думка, 2002. — C. 72–79.
- Kozak Mamay. Amazing collection of images collected by one individual. Some paintings dating from the mid-17th century.
External links
- mamay.ch, Kozak Mamay. MAMAY'S ALIVE, HE JUST WAS THINKING.