Category
page 1Bogatyrs

Dmitry Pozharsky
Rurikid prince (1577-1642)
Ilya Muromets
Russian legendary hero

bogatyr
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),
Dobrynya Nikitich
Russian legendary figure
Alyosha Popovich
folk hero in the Russian folklore
Alexander Peresvet
Russian Orthodox monk warrior, later canonizated.

Dobrynya Mstislavich
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).
Eupaty Kolovrat
fictional character
Oslyabya
Russian monk
Anika the Warrior
mythological figure, knight errant character of Russian fairy tales
The legend of Sloven and Rus and Slovensk gord