[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#13836) Improved Russian nation

["Daniel Markstedt" <himasaram@xxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13836 >

On 2005-10-05, at 12.57, Egor Vyscrebentsov wrote:

>
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13836 >
>
> On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 02:51:17 -0700
> Daniel Markstedt <himasaram@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> DM>For this patch I reinserted leader Stalin, until a Sovieti nation is
> DM>committed..
> DM>
> DM>Is this ready to be applied now?
>
> Well, of course, I'm strongly against the legend - it has at least one
> error: there was no siezing. By the (historical) legend Rurik and his
> brothers were called to rule.
> Besides, Mihail Lomonosov (greatest russian scientist of XVIIIth 
> century)
> and many other historicians supposed that this is only a legend, which
> is not true (well, I think so too ;).
>
>

We should of course always try too keep legends as neutral as possible. 
Could you take a look at my latest attempt in the attached patch? I 
tried to emphasize that there were no actual foreign conquests going 
on.


>
> Several notes:
> Sankt-Peterburg is better, IMHO
> Ivan III is also Ivan the Great.
> [Ivan] the Terrible - not so good translation for Grozny (menacing, 
> threatening
> - from Lingvo vocabulary). Ivan Grozny is also Ivan IV.
>
> --
> Thanks, evyscr

"Ivan the Terrible" is a very old English interpretation of the Russian 
name. The word "terrible" used to have a quite different meaning back 
then.

Daniel

russian.ruleset.diff
Description: Binary data