people
Pechenegs
also: печенеги, Pechenegi
A medieval Turkic nomadic people who raided the lands of Kievan Rus from the 9th to 11th centuries and had ceased to exist as a distinct people by the late Middle Ages.
Reading notes
- Twenty-Six (Excerpts from a Diary) §6 Pechenegs
A medieval Turkic nomadic people who raided the Rus lands from the 9th-11th centuries; the diarist's absurd scholarly composition imagines them attacking a 19th-century province, centuries after they had ceased to exist as a people.
- Gusev §65 cattle, Pechenegs
The Pechenegs were a medieval Turkic nomadic people who raided the Kievan Rus' lands; by the nineteenth century "печенег" had become a generic insult for a crude, uncivilized person, used here by Pavel Ivanych as part of his tirade against the "dark, blind" common soldiers he otherwise claims to pity.
- The Pecheneg §6 the Pecheneg's farmstead
See the headnote's "title" note and the allusions sidecar for this work for the origin of the nickname and its meaning as a folk epithet for a crude or barbarous person, unrelated to any literal connection to the historical Pechenegs.