Alyosha Popovich
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Alyosha Popovich (Russian: Алёша Попо́вич, literally Alexey, son of the priest), alongside Dobrynya Nikitich and Ilya Muromets, is a bogatyr (i.e., a medieval Russian knight-errant).
The three of them are represented together at Vasnetsov's famous painting Bogatyrs.
In Byliny (oral stories) he is described as a crafty priest's son who wins by tricking and outsmarting his foes. He defeated the dragon Tugarin Zmeyevich by trickery. In later versions the dragon was transformed into the figure of a Mongol Khan.
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This article is based on material from the public domain 1906 Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.
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