Mother Russia is a national personification

National personification

A national personification is an anthropomorphization of a nation or its people; it can appear in both editorial cartoons and propaganda.Some early personifications in the Western world tended to be national manifestations of the majestic wisdom and war goddess Minerva/Athena, and often took the...

 of Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

, appearing in patriotic posters, statues etc. In the Soviet period, the term Mother Motherland

Mother Motherland

Mother Motherland , more correctly translated as Mother Homeland, a poetic appellation to Motherland, is the name of several monuments in various cities of the former Soviet Union. In the Soviet period, this term was used in preference to "Mother Russia"...

 (Родина-Мать, Rodina-Mat) was preferred, as representing the multi-ethnic Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

; still, there is a clear similarity between the pre-1917 Mother Russia and the Soviet figure, especially as depicted during and in the aftermath of the Eastern Front

Eastern Front (World War II)

The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of World War II between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union, Poland, and some other Allies which encompassed Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945...

 of the Second World War.

As a title of a work of art, "Mother Russia" may refer to:

• Mother Motherland
  Mother Motherland
  Mother Motherland , more correctly translated as Mother Homeland, a poetic appellation to Motherland, is the name of several monuments in various cities of the former Soviet Union. In the Soviet period, this term was used in preference to "Mother Russia"...
  
  statues in various cities throughout the former Soviet Union
• a song from the album No Prayer for the Dying
  No Prayer for the Dying
  Reviews for the album were generally poor, with Allmusic commenting that "the songwriting wasn't up to snuff when compared to such classics as Killers or Number of the Beast" and "as a whole doesn't measure up to the hits." Sputnikmusic were equally negative, stating that "No Prayer for the Dying...
  
  by Iron Maiden
  Iron Maiden
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• "Mother Russia (Renaissance song)
  Mother Russia (Renaissance song)
  Mother Russia is the closing song on Renaissance's 1974 album Turn of the Cards. It also appears on the 1976 live album Live at Carnegie Hall, the compilation Tales of 1001 Nights, Vol...
  
  ", a song by Renaissance
• "Dominion/Mother Russia", a song on the album Floodland
  Floodland
  Floodland is the second album by the British band The Sisters of Mercy, which was released in 1987 and marked their commercial break-through.-Break-up of the original band:...
  
  by The Sisters of Mercy
  The Sisters of Mercy
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• "Mother Russia (Doctor Who audio)
  Mother Russia (Doctor Who audio)
  Mother Russia is a Big Finish Productions audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. In it, Peter Purves reprises his role as Steven Taylor....
  
  ," an audio drama based on the British television series Doctor Who

• "Be one with Mother Russia" as said by Russia himself, from the Hetalia: Axis Powers
  Hetalia: Axis Powers
  is a Japanese webcomic, later adapted as a manga and an anime series, by . The series presents an allegorical trivialisation of political and historic events, particularly of the World War II era, in which the various countries are represented by stereotyped anthropomorphic characters...