Kalmyk National Theatre
present

The epic performance “Song about Djangar and his heroes”!

December, 14.

Welcome to theatre! (more…)

Great Oirat-Kalmyk epic! [ Ru ]

New performances about defenders in Elista. On March 4, 23 and 30 in Elista will be held a performance “A Song about Djangar and its warriors …”

Based on the Great Oirat-Kalmyk epic (more…)

Celebration of 575th Anniversary of the Kalmyk Folk Epic Dzhangar in North America!

Dear friends!

You are cordially invited to the celebration of 575th Anniversary of the Kalmyk Folk Epic Dzhangar in North America! (more…)

The Jangar epic was first told to the outside world by the German traveler Benjamin Bergmann at the beginning of the nineteenth century (Bergmann 1804-05).
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As many respected scholars of Oriental studies suppose – Kalmykia is the second birthplace of fairy tales after India. And for good reasons.

We have many stories of different genres: heroic tales (baatrlgch tuuls), magic tales (sidtya tuuls), everyday stories and many others! Kalmyk Folklore is really rich.

And our the most important heritage is, of course, as many of you have probably guessed, the epos “Djangar“! (more…)

Professor from St. Petersburg Svetlana Makhlina about Buddhism, kalmyk culture, ritual dances and temples

Buddhism – historically the first world religion. And yet, as Borges said, is “the most widespread religion in the world”. In Russia, the earliest penetration of Buddhism was characteristic of the Kalmyk people, who took more than 400 years ago.

Kalmyk culture germinated on the unique cultural soil elyutov who lived in a colorful country where the vast steppes “stretched white, happiness, koshmovye tent noble Noyon and zaisangs, but black as a bitter fate, tents commoners – albatu, ketchinerov and shabinerov”. (more…)

Song 2.
How married hero Ulan Khongr Scarlet Lion

Noisy hordes of strongmen,
Six thousand twelve knights,
Seven held in the palace circles.
In addition, the gray-haired old men
There was, they say, a circle.
And the red-faced old women important
There was, they say, a circle. (more…)

Eelyan Ovla [ De | Ru | Es | It | Fr ]

Monument to the national narrator of the Kalmyk epic “Dzhangar” – dzhangarchi Eelyan Ovla.

All Union Conference on the Conservation of Kalmyk national epos Djangar (Jangar) took place in Elista, the capital of Kalmykia. (more…)