Three of the most famous bogatyrs, Dobrynya Nikitich, Ilya Muromets and Alyosha Popovich, appear together in Victor Vasnetsov's 1898 painting Bogatyrs. A bogatyr is a character in medieval East Slavic legends, akin to a Western European knight-errant.

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