Russian folklore characters

Tsar/Emperor of Russia from 1682 to 1725

mythological figure, fantasy character, witch

Christmas figure in Slavic cultures

Cossack leader (c. 1630 - 1671)

Russian cossack explorer and pirate

Russian legendary hero

thumb|Illustration of a Kikimora (1934) by Ivan Bilibin (1876–1942). (Kikimora as house-spirit and guardian of chickens - hence her depiction in chicken-like form). Kikimora is a legendary creature, a female house spirit in Slavic mythology. Her role in the house is usually juxtaposed with that of the domovoy. The kikimora can either be a "bad" or a "good" spirit, which will depend on the behavior of the homeowner. In more recent times, an image of kikimora as a female swamp spirit has developed.

Leshy or Leshi is a tutelary deity of the forest in pagan Slavic mythology. As Leshy rules over the forest and hunting, he may be related to the Slavic god Porewit.

thumb|upright=1.3|Kashchey the Immortal by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1848–1926 Koshchei (), also Kashchei (), often given the epithet "the Immortal", or "the Deathless" (), is an archetypal male antagonist in Russian folklore and mythology.

thumb|Sadko, Palekh miniature

Russian legendary figure

folk hero in the Russian folklore

alt= An illustration from the classic 1913 edition of the Kolobok Russian fairy-tale|thumb|Illustration of Kolobok from the 1913 A. Medvedev Russian Empire|Russian edition (see Category:Kolobok (A. Medvedev)) Kolobok (Cyrillic: колобо́к) is the main character of an East Slavic fairy-tale with the same name, represented as a small yellow spherical bread-like being. The story is often called "Little Round Bun" and sometimes "The Runaway Bun." In other Slavic regions, it is often adapted to local variation of a kolobok. For example, in Bulgaria it is known as "The Wheat Pita" ( ), wheat pita bein

Russian folk hero

Russian folk tale

folk fairy tale

thumb|Gostomysl depicted on the first plate of the book Illustrated History of the Russian State|Karamzin (1836), depicting the history of Russia. Gostomysl (, ) was a legendary 9th-century prince or posadnik of Novgorod, who was introduced in chronicles of the XV century and developed in the Russian historiography by Vasily Tatishchev (1686–1750).

Russian Orthodox monk warrior, later canonizated.

character in East Slavic folk poems

fictional character

character from Russian folklore

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.

character in Slavic mythology

Russian mythical hero

Russian epic hero

character of the Bogatyr epics

Russian folk-literature hero

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.

trickster character in eastern European folklore

Russian fairy tale

thumb|Duel of Peresvet with Chelubey, painting by Viktor Vasnetsov (1914)

thumb|300px|right|A depiction of a polka on the lid of a chest

mythological figure, knight errant character of Russian fairy tales

Moryana (, ) is a female sea spirit in Slavic folklore, possibly a goddess. Moryana was a sea vodyanitsa and daughter of the Sea Tsar, and also, according to some beliefs, she ruled the winds. Sometimes the moryany/moryanki (plural; ; Polish: moriany) were said to be numerous spirits of the sea and a marine kind of rusalki, which posed a great threat to ships, but usually Moryana was represented as a single entity.