Mother Russia

Calque of Russian Ма́тушка Росси́я (Mátuška Rossíja) or Росси́я-Ма́тушка (Rossíja-Mátuška).

Mother Russia

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1. A national personification of Russia as a woman, appearing in patriotic posters, statues, etc.
2. (metonymically) Russia.
   • 1920, Malcolm Waters Davis, Open Gates to Russia, page 44:

     We did not understand what it was all about; but we were defending Mother Russia.

   • 1970, Wally Ferris, Across 110th, page 103:

     In the thirties and forties, they were the Marxists talkin' about spreading Mother Russia's legs around the world; now it's sing along with the black man.

   • 2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 165:

     Collective daydreaming shut down when we boarded the Soviet-made airliner in Korea. Next stop Mother Russia.