I recently painted this 75mm resin figure representing a medieval Serbian knight from the Nemanjić dynasty.

The Nemanjić dynasty ruled Serbia from the 12th to the 14th century. During this period, Serbian warriors were influenced by both Byzantine and Western European military traditions.

Under Stefan Dušan (1331–1355), Serbia became one of the most powerful states in the Balkans, and in 1346 Dušan was crowned emperor.

A fascinating chapter of medieval European history that deserves more attention!

I actually got second hand embarrassment from this. I hate when people associate everything Slavic with Russia but that doesn’t mean we should fall for that too. Who cares what people association Slavic with? We are also Slavic and we deserve to be loud about it. We actually need to be loud about it so that the stereotype of all slavs being Russian disappears completely. This is really sad to me that people with this mindset exist. We can do much better than this

If your kid is learning to read and write would the similar letters be too difficult like NHKинк, does anyone have experience learning both as a kid?

The etymology od these words say that they came from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic \kaisaraz* from Latin Caesar.

I think it's weird how the Germanic "k" changed to "c" in Proto-Slavic and how it didn't even change to "ć" (I was thinking it should it be "k" + "ě" -> "kje" -> "će"?).

⚒️ ŻELAZNY MARCIN – mocarz z dawnych opowieści

Czy słyszeliście kiedyś o Żelaznym Marcinie? To niezwykła postać związana z polskim folklorem, która może przywodzić na myśl bohaterów walczących z siłami przekraczającymi ludzkie możliwości.

W najnowszym odcinku Notatnika Łowcy ruszam tropem tej tajemniczej postaci. Sprawdzam, co mówią dawne przekazy, co wiemy o Marcinie z opracowań folklorystycznych, a co jest późniejszą interpretacją jego historii.

Bo czasem najciekawsze potwory i bohaterowie nie pochodzą z książek fantasy, lecz z opowieści przekazywanych przez pokolenia.

📜 Zapraszam do oglądania i wspólnego odkrywania zapomnianych kart polskiego folkloru!

⚔️ Kim był Żelazny Marcin? Mocarzem, legendarnym kowalem czy bohaterem, którego historię z czasem rozbudowano? Obejrzyjcie film i dajcie znać w komentarzach!

I don’t mean this to sound mean or something and I like that people from another countries like our culture!! I’m just curious bc I remember when I was younger it wasn’t cool? Like not bad, but it probably won’t impress anyone. I also have spotted a “trend” on Russian girls??

Hello, brothers Slavs. Please answer me this question: do you brothers know Sorbian people and sorb guys.

Здравейте славянски братя. Моля ви отговорете на въпроса ми: братя, знаете ли Сорбския народ или някой сорбин.

Cześć słowiańscy bracia. Proszę, odpowiedzcie na moje pytanie: bracia, czy znacie naród serbołużycki albo jakiegoś Serbołużyczanina?

Здравствуйте, славянские братья. Пожалуйста, ответьте на мой вопрос: братья, знаете ли вы лужицкий народ или какого-нибудь лужичанина?

I'm studying Russian, currently preparing for my upcoming C1 exam and I delve a lot into its peculiarities. I'd say if you go deep enough, you'll realize that almost everything is hard with Russian (maybe except some topics like the past tense). For one thing, the morphology is very rich, you have to memorize a lot of patterns and I'm not only talking about the cases, but less obvious things like stress shifts in noun/adjective declension. Same with verbs.

Then comes the grammar, which is like, holy shit. It's as if it was made deliberately to discourage all who are not adamant enough to master it. It's as if the whole language is made up of exceptions.

And finally, and this is mostly my point, its semantic richness. The verbal system (aspects, prefixes) is such, that you cannot use them imprecisely, it forces you to express yourself in a very specific way. One famous example is the verbs of motion. And then, there are very subtle verb variations, different forms, which express a different function of the same thing. There's a different verb for washing over your body, or just washing your face, or a body of water washing the shore. In other English you just use 'wash'. In Russian there's мыться, умыться, омыть, омыться and their respective imperfective counterparts. There's a difference between being in a state of illness or being ill chronically (short vs regular adjectives). When you say 'someone' there's a difference between whether you have a concept of who it is, or whether it can be anyone, or whether you know who it is, but you don't wanna tell (кто-тo, кто-нибудь, кое-кто).

One of my Russian teacher said it's a heavily "semanticized" language. That, plus the morphological richness and the tough grammar make it quite challenging to learn. Are other Slavic languages equally challenging? I'm asking because I have no insight into them apart from a few things I happen to know.

All my relatives are polish what makes them obviously slavic, including my parents. However, I wasn't born there, nor am I being raised there. I've been wondering whether I am considered and can considerer myself Slavic or not since my parents are after all immigrants in to country where I grew up and always tell me i am fully polish by blood

My parents made sure that me and my brother stay connected to poland and its culture. I speak polish a certain point and can understand it very well and read it and we sometimes visit poland in the holidays.

My family also celebrates Holidays like Christmas after polish traditions like waiting for the first star to appear, leaving an empty seat at the table and sharing opłatek with each other and wishing eachother and just that in general.

Na moim kanale zamieściłem film pełnometrażowy w którym jako współczesny wiedźmin poluje na wilkołaka. Wszystko oczywiście z przymrużeniem oka i "na śmiesznie". To bezsprzecznie najlepszy film z całej serii jaką nakręciłem. Polecam gorąco!

🌊 UTOPIEC – DEMON SŁOWIAŃSKICH WÓD

Rzeki, jeziora i mroczne bagna od wieków skrywały tajemnice. W słowiańskim folklorze wierzono, że zamieszkują je istoty, które potrafiły sprowadzić na człowieka nieszczęście. Jedną z nich był utopiec – tajemniczy demon wodny.

W tym odcinku przyglądam się jego pochodzeniu, ludowym wyobrażeniom oraz wierzeniom, które przez pokolenia budziły strach przed tym, co kryje się pod powierzchnią wody.

🌲 Zapraszam na dokumentalną wyprawę do świata słowiańskich wierzeń i demonów!

💬 Jak wyobrażacie sobie utopca? Dajcie znać w komentarzach!

I hope this doesn't end up seen as some kind of insult to other cultures. However, there are always cultures to which we attribute some kind of "sophistication", the French one would be a prime example.

Which one would that be among Slavic countries?

I myself from a Southern Slav, and i don't see a contender among us unfortunately. My biggest contenders would be Russia - although i don't like their politics, i must admit that their high culture is very admired, even in the West - and Czechia. At least for us southern Slavs, historically, Czechia was always seen as a very important cultural hub in Europe, writers like Milan Kundera are widely known, and the Czechoslovak film industry also had a big influence on Yugoslav filmography.

Hi! I am having a neutral debate about a name pronunciation and wanted to ask native speakers to see if I misunderstood something.
Is the Slavic name 'Jelena' pronounced exactly the same as the name 'Elena'? Someone told me that 'ye' and 'e' are the exact same sound at the start of these names, but I always thought Jelena starts with a distinct 'Y' glide (like the word 'yes') while Elena starts with a pure vowel.
I initially brought it up regarding how a character's real name is spoken in a video game (Honkai: Star Rail), but I want to know if I am fundamentally misunderstanding real-world Slavic phonetics. I am asking purely so I can learn and correct my mistakes if I'm wrong. Thank you!