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Ilyana's Home

Welcome to my SCA home on the Web! My name is Ilyana Barsova and I am a Russian woman living in 13th century Novgorod. However, it looks like I am soon to be betrothed to an Englishman and I will probably have to leave my fair homeland for a strange island to the West. Sigh! The sad trials of being a dutiful daughter.
What is the SCA? Glad you asked. SCA stands for The Society for Creative Anachronism. It is what I spend most of my free time doing. It is my social group and it is also how I met my husband. Basically, the SCA is a non-profit, educational organization that explores the Middle Ages and early Renaissance, not unlike groups that recreate the Civil War and other historical times. Members are encouraged to choose a time period and geographical area to research and pretend to be a person living in that place and time. As you can see from above, my interests center around Medieval Russia. For a more detailed description of the SCA check out the official page for The Society for Creative Anachronism.
Currently I live in the Middle Kingdom, in the Barony of Jararvellir. I am originally from the Barony of Mag Mor in the Kingdom of Calontir and I have also lived in the Barony of Wurm Wald (Middle Kingdom). A kingdom is really just a name for an administrative region.
Generally I spend most of my time researching the Middle Ages in Russia, from the time period of about 800 CE to 1650 CE, before Peter the Great ruled. I have a whole other page dedicated to links and resources that I use in my Medieval Slavic and Russian research. However, I wasn't interested in Russia when I joined, as can be seen from my SCA links. The biggest project I am working on right now is planning my Russian Wedding, scheduled for August of 1999 and to be held at the Pennsic War, a large (over 9000 campers in 1998) SCA camping event in western Pennsylvania.
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This page last updated December 21, 1998

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