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Ilya Muromets
Ilya Muromets or Murometz, also known as Ilya of Murom, is a bogatyr (hero) in a type of Russian oral epic poem called bylina set during the time of the Kievan Rus'. He is often featured alongside fellow bogatyrs Dobrynya Nikitich and Alyosha Popovich, the three collectively known in Russian culture as "the three bogatyrs".
Attempts have been made to identify a possible historical nucleus for the character. The main candidate is Ilya Pechersky, a 12th-century monk in the Kiev Pechersk Lavra who was canonized in 1643. His relics are preserved in the monastery.
Ilya Muromets is a major figure in byliny (pl. of bylina), a type of Russian epic folklore collected in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The son of a peasant, Ilya was born in the village of Karacharovo, near Murom. He suffered a serious illness in his youth and was unable to walk until the age of 33. He could only lie on a Russian stove, until he was miraculously healed by two pilgrims. He was then given superhuman strength by a dying knight, Svyatogor, and set out to liberate the city of Kiev from Idolishche and to serve Vladimir I of Kiev. Along the way, he single-handedly defended the city of Chernigov from nomadic invasion (possibly by the Polovtsi) and was offered knighthood by the local ruler, but Ilya declined to stay. In the forests of Bryansk, he then killed the forest-dwelling monster known as Nightingale the Robber (Solovei-Razboinik), who murdered travelers with his powerful whistle.
In Kiev, Ilya was made the chief bogatyr by Vladimir and he defended the country from numerous attacks originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe, traditionally personified in epic as Kalin-tsar of the Tatars. Generous and simple-minded but also temperamental, Ilya once went on a rampage and destroyed all the church steeples in Kiev after Vladimir failed to invite him to a celebration. He was soon appeased when Vladimir sent for him.
Some suggest that his prototype was Ilya Pechersky, a 12th-century monk in the Kiev Pechersk Lavra who was born in Karacharovo, near Murom, and canonized in 1643. According to hagiography, before taking his monastic vows, Ilya Pechersky was a warrior famous for his strength. His nickname was "Chobotok", meaning "(small) boot", given to him after an incident when Ilya Pechersky, caught by surprise, fought off enemies with only his boot.[better source needed]
According to another version, Ilya stemmed from modern-day Morivsk (earlier known as Moroveysk), a village halfway between Kyiv and Chernihiv (Chernigov) in modern-day Ukraine. It is supported by the notes of Erich Lassota von Steblau, who in 1594 visited the Pechersk Monastery and described the hero (bohater) buried there as "Elia Morowlin" - "Elijah of Morov".
In 1988, Soviet archeologists exhumed Ilya Pechersky's remains, which were stored in the monastery, and studied them. Their report suggested that at least some parts of the legend may be true: the man was tall, and his bones carried signs of spinal disease at early age and marks from numerous wounds, one of which was fatal.
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Ilya Muromets
Ilya Muromets or Murometz, also known as Ilya of Murom, is a bogatyr (hero) in a type of Russian oral epic poem called bylina set during the time of the Kievan Rus'. He is often featured alongside fellow bogatyrs Dobrynya Nikitich and Alyosha Popovich, the three collectively known in Russian culture as "the three bogatyrs".
Attempts have been made to identify a possible historical nucleus for the character. The main candidate is Ilya Pechersky, a 12th-century monk in the Kiev Pechersk Lavra who was canonized in 1643. His relics are preserved in the monastery.
Ilya Muromets is a major figure in byliny (pl. of bylina), a type of Russian epic folklore collected in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The son of a peasant, Ilya was born in the village of Karacharovo, near Murom. He suffered a serious illness in his youth and was unable to walk until the age of 33. He could only lie on a Russian stove, until he was miraculously healed by two pilgrims. He was then given superhuman strength by a dying knight, Svyatogor, and set out to liberate the city of Kiev from Idolishche and to serve Vladimir I of Kiev. Along the way, he single-handedly defended the city of Chernigov from nomadic invasion (possibly by the Polovtsi) and was offered knighthood by the local ruler, but Ilya declined to stay. In the forests of Bryansk, he then killed the forest-dwelling monster known as Nightingale the Robber (Solovei-Razboinik), who murdered travelers with his powerful whistle.
In Kiev, Ilya was made the chief bogatyr by Vladimir and he defended the country from numerous attacks originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe, traditionally personified in epic as Kalin-tsar of the Tatars. Generous and simple-minded but also temperamental, Ilya once went on a rampage and destroyed all the church steeples in Kiev after Vladimir failed to invite him to a celebration. He was soon appeased when Vladimir sent for him.
Some suggest that his prototype was Ilya Pechersky, a 12th-century monk in the Kiev Pechersk Lavra who was born in Karacharovo, near Murom, and canonized in 1643. According to hagiography, before taking his monastic vows, Ilya Pechersky was a warrior famous for his strength. His nickname was "Chobotok", meaning "(small) boot", given to him after an incident when Ilya Pechersky, caught by surprise, fought off enemies with only his boot.[better source needed]
According to another version, Ilya stemmed from modern-day Morivsk (earlier known as Moroveysk), a village halfway between Kyiv and Chernihiv (Chernigov) in modern-day Ukraine. It is supported by the notes of Erich Lassota von Steblau, who in 1594 visited the Pechersk Monastery and described the hero (bohater) buried there as "Elia Morowlin" - "Elijah of Morov".
In 1988, Soviet archeologists exhumed Ilya Pechersky's remains, which were stored in the monastery, and studied them. Their report suggested that at least some parts of the legend may be true: the man was tall, and his bones carried signs of spinal disease at early age and marks from numerous wounds, one of which was fatal.