Ilya Muromets
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Ilya Muromets or Murometz, also known as Ilya of Murom, is a bogatyr in a type of Russian oral epic poem called bylina set during the time of the Kievan Rus'. He is often featured alongside fellow bog
Ilya Muromets (1914) by Viktor Vasnetsov
![Bogatyrs [ru] (1898), a famous painting by Viktor Vasnetsov. Ilya Muromets is in the center, with Dobrynya Nikitich on the left, and Alyosha Popovich](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Viktor_Vasnetsov_-_%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8B%D1%80%D0%B8_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/500px-Viktor_Vasnetsov_-_%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8B%D1%80%D0%B8_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)
Bogatyrs [ru] (1898), a famous painting by Viktor Vasnetsov. Ilya Muromets is in the center, with Dobrynya Nikitich on the left, and Alyosha Popovich on the right.
Bogatyr
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A bogatyr is a stock character in medieval East Slavic legends, akin to a Western European knight-errant. Bogatyrs appear mainly in Rus' epic poems—bylinas. Historically, they came into existence duri
Ilya Muromets
…Ilya Muromets or Murometz, also known as Ilya of Murom, is a bogatyr (hero) in a type of Russian oral epic poem called bylina set during the time of the Kievan Rus'. He is often featured alongside fellow bogatyrs Dobrynya…
Photo of bogatyr definition in different languages from Max Vasmer's Russian Etymological Dictionary
Knight (Vityaz) at the Crossroads, Viktor Vasnetsov (1882), Russian Museum
Sergey Solomko. Bogatyr, Nastasya Korolevichna.