The Meryans (also Merya people ; Russian : меряне , meryane or меря , marya ) were an ancient Finnic people that lived in the Upper Volga region . The Primary Chronicle places them around the Nero and Pleshcheyevo lakes. They were assimilated to Russians around the 13th century, but there has been a modern revival of Meryan culture and language, termed Meryan ethnofuturism [ ru ] .
14-434: Merya may refer to: Merya people Merya language , an extinct language Merya (Tanzanian ward) See also [ edit ] Meryan (disambiguation) Merja (disambiguation) , pronounced "Merya" Meria (disambiguation) Marya , a tribe of Eritria Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
28-764: A nation paying tribute to the Gothic ruler Ermanarich . According to the Primary Chronicle , the Varangians also forced the Meryans to pay tribute. This event is dated to 859, although the chronology is not reliable. Oleg of Novgorod forced the Meryans to take part in his 882 campaigns against Smolensk and Kiev . They are also mentioned as the participants of Oleg's campaign against Constantinople in 907. Merya began to be assimilated by East Slavs when their territory became incorporated into Kievan Rus' in
42-491: Is a middle-aged bachelor who leads a lonely life in the northern town of Neya . Like many of his neighbours, he identifies as a Meryan and strives to keep alive the reconstructed traditions of that culture. He acquires two Bunting birds. One day his boss, Miron, informs Aist of the death of his wife Tanya and demands his help disposing of the body without an autopsy. The pair spend quite some time washing her body and putting coloured threads in her pubic hair. (In their culture,
56-629: Is inspired by genetic links to the Meryan people. in 2010 a film was made about the Neo-Meryan people. In Moscow there exists a "Meryan society", and Meryan festivals have been done in Moscow. In 2010, the Neo-Meryans were featured in the award-winning film Silent Souls . Silent Souls Silent Souls (Russian: Овся́нки, "The Buntings ") is a 2010 Russian road drama film that
70-520: Is part folk tale, part lesson in letting go. In its quiet acceptance of the passing of time, this unusual film reminds us that to die is not always the same as to disappear". Roger Ebert expressed the opinion that the film "in only 75 perfect minutes achieves the profundity of an epic", also mentioning that "not often have I been more deeply touched". In contrast, Slant Magazine claims that "the film’s screenplay often shows more surface than depth" and that "the film wouldn’t reward multiple views save for
84-761: The 10th century. Their assimilation in the Upper Volga region seems to have been complete by the 13th century. The Life of Abraham of Galich claims that, when arriving to the Lake Galich in the 14th century, he found there some "pagan people called Merya". The Meryans were an important part of the development of the Russian nation. The sites of Sarskoye Gorodishche near Lake Nero and island Nero and Kleshchin near Lake Pleshcheyevo were formerly proposed as Meryan "capitals", although this notion has been largely abandoned. A large boulder supposedly venerated by
98-482: The Buntings get loose in the car to peck at their eyes. Silent Souls received considerable praise from film critics. It has an approval rating of 96% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , based on 47 reviews, and an average rating of 7.70/10. It also has a score of 76 out of 100 on Metacritic , based on 15 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". The official Rossiyskaya Gazeta compared
112-567: The Merya survives near Kleshchin (see Blue Stone ). Not a single word of the Merya language was documented. The Meryans mostly lived around rivers, and many river hydronyms are still of Meryan origin. Based on toponyms , onomastics and words in Russian dialects some people have tried to reconstruct the key features of the Meryan language. The first reconstructions were done in 1985 by O. B. Tkachenko. The latest book about Merya reconstructions
126-534: The film to Tarkovsky 's best work as a powerful evocation of pre-Christian roots of rural Russia. Andrei Plakhov praised the film as "a metaphor for the lost (and probably mythical) world that was crushed by the moloch of industrialisation". Among American critics, Jim Hoberman wrote: "Dour yet affirmative, this laconic, deliberately paced, beautifully shot movie seeks the archaic in the ordinary". Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times commented: "Populated by memories and dappled with desire, “Silent Souls”
140-516: The same ritual is performed on brides-to-be). Taking the birds and Tanya's naked body with them, the two men travel to Gorbatov , the site of her honeymoon and the smallest town in Russia, in order to perform cremation rites on the banks of the Oka River . In a tradition of "smoking" or sexually recounting the dead, Miron boasts of his wife's strictly enforced submissiveness. Aist recalls that Tanya
154-474: The title Merya . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Merya&oldid=1177955047 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Merya people Jordanes mentioned "Merens" as
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#1732765105235168-691: Was nominated for the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice Film Festival . It is based on a 2008 novella by Denis Osokin . The film was awarded the Golden Osella for best cinematography and a FIPRESCI award. It was considered a frontrunner for the Golden Lion, but did not win. However, it did win Best Screenplay (awarded to Denis Osokin) at the 2011 Asia Pacific Screen Awards . It received generally positive reviews from critics. Aist
182-456: Was published in 2019. The Meryans are thought to have been closely connected with the Muroma people (whose language has even been suggested to have been a dialect of Meryan). Rahkonen claims that the eastern Volkhov Chudes were very close to Meryans, culturally and linguistically. Some people from the former Meryan territory have recently began to identify themselves as "Meryan", which
196-537: Was unhappy. A policeman sees the dead body in their car but chalks it up to Meryan custom. On their way back to Neya, they get lost and are approached by two prostitutes, with whom they have sex. Thinking back on Tanya Miron laments that he should have "let her go" implying that her death was a murder to prevent her departure. Afterwards, while traversing the Kineshma Bridge , they are caused to crash into "the great Meryan river" (The Volga : there to drown) when
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