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Encyclopedia > Dobrynya Nikitich
Download high resolution version (1331x890, 477 KB)Bogatyrs (1898) by Viktor Vasnetsov. Bogatyrs (left to right): Dobrynya Nikitich, Ilya Muromets, Alyosha Popovich. See also Image:Slavic Mythology. Vasnetsov-Bogatyry.jpg File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version...
Download high resolution version (1331x890, 477 KB)Bogatyrs (1898) by Viktor Vasnetsov. Bogatyrs (left to right): Dobrynya Nikitich, Ilya Muromets, Alyosha Popovich. See also Image:Slavic Mythology. Vasnetsov-Bogatyry.jpg File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version... Enlarge
Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. Start the Bogatyr article If you have created this page in the past few minutes and it has not yet appeared, it may not be visible due to a delay in updating the database. Please wait and check again... Bogatyrs (1898) by Bogatyrs (1898) by Viktor Vasnetsov Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov (Виктор Михайлович Васнецов) ( May 15 ( N.S.), 1848— 1926) was a Russian painter, theatre decorator, graphic designer, and painter of... Viktor Vasnetsov

Alongside Bogatyrs (1898) by Viktor Vasnetsov Alyosha Popovich ( Russian: ), alongside Dobrynya Nikitich and Ilya Muromets, is a bogatyr (i.e., medieval Russian knights-errant) The three of them are represented together at Vasnetsovs famous painting Bogatyrs. In Byliny (oral stories) he is described as a crafty priests son who... Alyosha Popovich and For the Russian bomber Ilya Muromets, see Ilya Muromets. Ilya Muromets (Ilya of Murom) is a Russian mythical hero. He is celebrated in numerous byliny (folk epic poems). Along with Dobrynya Nikitich and Alyosha Popovich he is regarded as the greatest of all the legendary bogatyrs (i.e., medieval Russian... Ilya Muromets, is a Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. Start the Bogatyr article If you have created this page in the past few minutes and it has not yet appeared, it may not be visible due to a delay in updating the database. Please wait and check again... bogatyr (i.e., The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. The Middle Ages of Western Europe are commonly dated from the end of the Western Roman Empire... medieval The term Russian can refer to: The Russian language Someone from Russia or with a Russian ethnic identity, see Russians Something of or pertaining to Russia Wiktionary information For more information: Russian This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the... Russian A statue of an armoured knight of the Middle Ages For the chess piece, see knight (chess). In former times, a knight was a warrior or nobleman; today a knight is a person who has been given a royal recognition. In the United Kingdom and some Commonwealth nations the knight... knights-errant) The three of them are represented together at Vasnetsov's famous painting Bogatyrs. Depicted in Bylina ( Russian: были́на, also Byliny and Stariny) is a traditional epic, heroic narrative poetry of early East Slavs of Kievan Rus, the tradition continued in Russia and Ukraine. Bylina comes from the Russian byl (быль), a word which signifies a story... Byliny (oral tradition) as a dragonslayer who wins by bravery. He killed the dragon Gorynich.


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Dobrynya at AllExperts (267 words)
Dobrynya was Vladimir the Great's maternal uncle and tutor who was later transformed in Russian folklore into the invincible bogatyr Dobrynya Nikitich.
Dobrynya's life and extent of his influence on Vladimir are shrouded in speculation and controversy.
It is also generally accepted that Dobrynya's posadnik dynasty in Novgorod was continued by his son Konstantin Dobrynich and grandson Ostromir.
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