{"title":"Iranians, Armenians, Prince Igor, and the Lightness of Pushkin","authors":"J. R. Russell","doi":"10.1163/1573384X-20140403","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The Animal Style that characterizes Scythian art came into Armenia and Russia, where it is attested in bas-reliefs on churches; and the epic Song of Igor's Campaign, a unique verbal reflection of it, inspired Pushkin and his descendants in their poetic visions.","PeriodicalId":334643,"journal":{"name":"Poets, Heroes, and their Dragons (2 vols)","volume":"150 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2014-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Poets, Heroes, and their Dragons (2 vols)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384X-20140403","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The Animal Style that characterizes Scythian art came into Armenia and Russia, where it is attested in bas-reliefs on churches; and the epic Song of Igor's Campaign, a unique verbal reflection of it, inspired Pushkin and his descendants in their poetic visions.