Great Russia
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Great Russia, sometimes Great Grand Duchy of Moscow and later the Tsardom of Russia. This was the land to which the ethnic Russians were native and where the ethnogenesis of (Great) Russians took place. The name is said to have come from the Greek Μεγάλη Ῥωσ(σ)ία, Megálē Rhōs(s)ía.[1]
From 1654 to 1721, Russian
Rus': the Great, the Little, and the White
".
The term is mentioned in the opening lines of the
State Anthem of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: "Unbreakable Union of freeborn Republics Great Russia has welded forever to stand!" (or lit. "An unbreakable union of free republics, Great Russia has sealed forever").[2]
Similarly, the terms
Great Russian language
(Великорусский язык, Velikorusskiy yazyk) and Great Russians (Великороссы, Velikorossy) were employed by ethnographers and linguists in the 19th century, but have since fallen out of use.
The area became, together with the
White Russia became the Ukrainian SSR and the Byelorussian SSR
respectively.
See also
- All-Russian nation
- Etymology of Rus and derivatives: From Rus' to Rossiya
- Greater Poland
- Little Russia
- Novorossiya (New Russia)
- White Russia (disambiguation)
References
- ^ Vasmer, Max (1986). Etymological dictionary of the Russian language. Moscow: Progress. p. 289. Archived from the original on 2011-08-15. Retrieved 2010-10-10.
- ^ "Lyrics: The Soviet National Anthem". www.marxists.org. Retrieved 2017-10-29.
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