Volga Svyatoslavich
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Volga Svyatoslavich or Volkh Vseslavyevich is a Russian epic hero, a bogatyr, from the Novgorod Republic bylina cycle.
Volga Svyatoslavich and Mikula Selyaninovich, by Ivan Bilibin
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
The three most famous bogatyrs, Dobrynya Nikitich, Ilya Muromets and Alyosha Popovich, appear together in Viktor Vasnetsov's 1898 painting Bogatyrs kept in the Tretyakov Gallery.
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.