{"id":630,"date":"2020-02-05T04:45:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T04:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/?p=630"},"modified":"2020-02-05T12:37:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T12:37:13","slug":"the-historic-version-of-marfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/csantana\/the-historic-version-of-marfa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Historic Version of Marfa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Tsar&#8217;s Bride<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0depicts men fighting for the love of the beautiful Marfa. In the story, Gryaznoi, Ivan, and Ivan all try to possess Marfa either through love powders, forced marriage, or voluntary union. The fight of Marfa leads to her poisoning and the death of most of the people involved in the plot. Historically Marfa was also chosen by Ivan, and succumbed to a mysterious ailment, but is suspected of having poisoned by her mother accidentally. The choice to have two men and one of their wives fight over Marfa is a stylistic choice, which I believe was made to illustrate the corrupt nature of the boyars and to depict the gender inequalities between men and women before the soviet era. The film was created in 1966 during the USSR, and hence the consolidation of powers by Ivan was a theme prized by Stalin. Gender inequality is contrasted by the total equality established under communism. The differences between the historic and opera version are meant to determine the vast differences between these two time periods. Also, since the opera version ends in such a tragic manner, I believe this ending was supposed to illustrate the flaws of the boyar and sexist culture of old Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tsar&#8217;s Bride\u00a0depicts men fighting for the love of the beautiful Marfa. In the story, Gryaznoi, Ivan, and Ivan all try to possess Marfa either through love powders, forced marriage, or voluntary union. The fight of Marfa leads to her poisoning and the death of most of the people involved in the plot. Historically Marfa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1025,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unit-3-autocracy-takes-hold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1025"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}