Category
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Peter the Great
Tsar/Emperor of Russia from 1682 to 1725
Stepan Razin
Cossack leader (c. 1630 - 1671)
Yermak Timofeyevich
Russian cossack explorer and pirate
Ilya Muromets
Russian legendary hero

Sadko
thumb|Sadko, Palekh miniature
Slavic dragon
mythical character
Dobrynya Nikitich
Russian legendary figure
Alyosha Popovich
folk hero in the Russian folklore
Zmei Gorynich
in Russian folktales and epic poetry, is a dragon or serpent, or sometimes a human-like character with dragon-like traits
Eupaty Kolovrat
fictional character
Tugarin Zmeyevich
thumb|Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin, depiction by [[Klavdy Lebedev (1889)]]
Tugarin () is a mythical creature in Russian byliny and fairy tales, which personifies evil and cruelty and appears in a dragon-like form. Tugarin is depicted as a giant and an opponent of Alyosha Popovich.
Vassily Buslayev
character of the Bogatyr epics
Mikula Selyaninovich
Russian mythical hero
Volga Svyatoslavich
Russian epic hero
Chernava
thumb|Sadko (painting)|Sadko by [[Ilya Repin]]
In Russian folklore, Chernava (diminutive: Chernavushka; ) is Sea Tsar's daughter (or, according to some versions, a niece), spirit and personification of the river of the same name. She is a mermaid. Her head and upper body are human, while the lower body is a fish's tail. Chernava is famed from her appearance in the epic of Sadko.
Duke Stepanovich
character in Bylina