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Yaruga, Queen, reigned 1799-1800, sister of Uran (q.v.); drowned in an ice-hole with her Russian lover during traditional New Year's festivities, 681. (PF, Index)
Queen Yaruga (reigned 1799-1800) his great-great-granddam, was half Russian; and most historians believe that Yaruga's only child Igor was not the son of Uran the Last (reigned 1798-1799) but the fruit of her amours with the Russian adventurer Hodinski, her goliart (court jester) and a poet of genius, said to have forged in his spare time a famous old Russian chanson de geste, generally attributed to an anonymous bard of the twelfth century. (PF, Commentary, Line 681)
Yaruga means "a deep ravine." Yarugi (plural of yaruga) are mentioned three times in The Song of Igor's Campaign:
А мои ти Куряни св?доми къмети: подъ трубами повити, подъ шеломы възлел?яны, конець копія въскръмлени, пути имь в?доми, яругы имъ знаеми. (ll. 78-83)
Уже бо б?ды его пасетъ птиць по дубію; влъци грозу въсрожатъ по яругамъ. (ll. 132-135)
Наступи (Святослав) на землю Половецкую, притопта хлъми и яругы, взмути р?кы и озеры, иссуши потокы и болота. (ll. 360-364)
On the other hand, Hodinski's profession and the circumstances of his (and Queen Yaruga's) death remind one of prince Golitsyn's (a jester at the court of Empress Anna Ioannovna) mock wedding with the Kalmuck woman Avdot'ya Buzheninov described by Lazhechnikov in his historical novel Ledyanoy dom (The Ice House, 1835).
Alexey Sklyarenko
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Queen Yaruga (reigned 1799-1800) his great-great-granddam, was half Russian; and most historians believe that Yaruga's only child Igor was not the son of Uran the Last (reigned 1798-1799) but the fruit of her amours with the Russian adventurer Hodinski, her goliart (court jester) and a poet of genius, said to have forged in his spare time a famous old Russian chanson de geste, generally attributed to an anonymous bard of the twelfth century. (PF, Commentary, Line 681)
Yaruga means "a deep ravine." Yarugi (plural of yaruga) are mentioned three times in The Song of Igor's Campaign:
А мои ти Куряни св?доми къмети: подъ трубами повити, подъ шеломы възлел?яны, конець копія въскръмлени, пути имь в?доми, яругы имъ знаеми. (ll. 78-83)
Уже бо б?ды его пасетъ птиць по дубію; влъци грозу въсрожатъ по яругамъ. (ll. 132-135)
Наступи (Святослав) на землю Половецкую, притопта хлъми и яругы, взмути р?кы и озеры, иссуши потокы и болота. (ll. 360-364)
On the other hand, Hodinski's profession and the circumstances of his (and Queen Yaruga's) death remind one of prince Golitsyn's (a jester at the court of Empress Anna Ioannovna) mock wedding with the Kalmuck woman Avdot'ya Buzheninov described by Lazhechnikov in his historical novel Ledyanoy dom (The Ice House, 1835).
Alexey Sklyarenko
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