Bogatyrs

Rurikid prince (1577-1642)

Russian legendary hero

thumb|300x300px|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.]] A bogatyr (, ; , ) or vityaz (, ; , ) 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 during the reign of Vladimir the Great (Grand Prince of Kiev from 978 to 1015) as part of his elite warriors (druzhina),

Russian legendary figure

folk hero in the Russian folklore

Russian Orthodox monk warrior, later canonizated.

thumb | right | alt=An image of Dobrynya going to Polotsk on horseback | Dobrynya going to PolotskDobrynya, () was Volodymyr the Great's maternal uncle and tutor. He was the historical prototype of the invincible bogatyr called Dobrynya Nikitich who appears in folklore (byliny).

fictional character

Russian monk

mythological figure, knight errant character of Russian fairy tales