Editing Balalaika (section)

== Etymology ==

The earliest mention of the term ''balalaika'' dates back to a 1688 arrest document.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Averin |first=V. A. |title=Балалаечное исполнительство в Сибири: Опыт монографического исследования. |publisher=Yenisei Annals |publication-date=2013 |pages=31–33 |language=ru |trans-title=Balalaika performance in Siberia: Experience of monographic research}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Chlebak |first=Nicolas |date=2015-01-01 |title=The 'Adaptability' of the Balalaika: An Ethnomusicological Investigation of the Russian Traditional Folk Instrument |url=https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/castheses/14/ |journal=UVM College of Arts and Sciences College Honors Theses |pages= |quote= |ref=Chlebak |via=ScholarWorks}}</ref>{{Rp|pages=16–17|quote=A record from the year 1688 documents the arrest of two peasants, Savka  Fyodorov, son of Selevnev, and Ivashko Dmitriev, who rode up to Yausky gate and antagonized  the guard stationed there whilst singing and playing the balalaika [Fig. 2]. Not only does this event capture the first concrete glimpse of the balalaika, but exemplifies its initial role as an  instrument of rebellion, defying the oppression of the heirarchy.}} Another appearance of the word is found in a claim dated October 1700 in what is now the [[Verkhotursky District|Verkhotursky district]] of Russia.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Ivanov |first=Alexander V. |date=2015-02-17 |title=Балалайка. История балалайки. Русская балалайка и русские музыкальные традиции. |trans-title=History of the balalaika: The Russian balalaika and Russian musical traditions |url=http://www.2-capital.ru/balalajka.html |website=Политический клуб две столицы |language=ru}}</ref><ref name=":1" />{{Rp|page=18|quote=On a similar note to the arrest record,  another incident from a few decades later in October of 1700 calls attention to the balalaika’s  aggressive beginnings. Pronka and Alexey Bayanovy, two coachmen from Verkhotursky county,  claim that they were chased by L. Pashkov, the domestic servant of the magistrate K.P.Kozlov,  and beaten with a balalaika.}} [[Peter the Great]] requested balalaika performers to play at the wedding celebrations of [[Nikita Zotov|N.M. Zotov]] in [[Saint Petersburg]].<ref name=":1" />{{Rp|page=21|quote=However, contrary to the concerns  that the balalaika would die out, balalaika performers were present at the celebration that Peter  the Great organized for the prince-pope’s mock wedding in 1715.}}

In the [[Ukrainian language]], the word was first documented in the 18th century as "balabaika"; this form is also present in [[Southern Russian dialects|South Russian]] dialects and the [[Belarus]]ian language, as well as in [[Siberia|Siberian Russia]].<ref>[http://izbornyk.org.ua/djvu/tymchenko_slovnyk.htm Історичний словник українського язика] (''tr. "Historical dictionary of the Ukrainian language "'') Під ред. Є. Тимченка; укл.: Є. Тимченко, Є. Волошин, К. Лазаревська, Г. Петренко. — К.-Х., 1930–32. — Т. 1. — XXIV + 948 с. Зошит 1: А — Глу. — С. 52.</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/revelationssibe01felgoog|title=Revelations of Siberia.|last1=Felinska|first1=Ewa|last2=Lach-Szyrma|first2=Krystyn|date=1852|publisher=London, Colburn and co.|others=University of Michigan}}</ref>

It made its way into literature in the 18th century, first appearing in "Elysei", a 1771 poem by V. Maykov.{{citation needed|date=March 2019}} "Balalaika" also appears in [[Nikolai Gogol]]'s ''[[Dead Souls]]'', written between 1837 and 1842.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gogol |first=Nikolai |title=Dead Souls—A Poem |publisher=CHATTO & WINDUS |year=1922 |edition=Wikisource |location=London |language=en |translator-last=Garnett |translator-first=Constance |chapter=CHAPTER V |quote=As he drove up to the steps he observed two faces peeping out of the window almost at the same moment: a woman's face in a cap as long and narrow as a cucumber, and a man's as full and round as the Moldavian pumpkins called gorlyankas out of which the Russians make balalaikas, light two-stringed balalaikas, the adornment and delight of the jaunty twenty-year-old peasant lad, the saucy dandy winking and whistling to the white-bosomed, white-throated maidens who gather round to listen to the tinkle of his thrumming. |access-date=2024-09-13 |orig-date=1842 |chapter-url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dead_Souls%E2%80%94A_Poem/Book_One/Chapter_V}}</ref>