Who studied Ilya Muromets. Who really was Ilya Muromets? But there is some unsteady of historical facts

Epic hero or real historical person?

Ilya Muromets is the most famous, but at the same time the most mysterious hero of the Russian epic. It is difficult to find such a person in Russia who would never hear about this glorious hero of the ancient city of Murom. The majority knows about it just that they remembered them from childhood from epics and fairy tales, and are often amazed by the complexity and multigid of this image. Over the resolution of mysteries associated with it, scientists have been fighting different specialties for almost two centuries, but the secrets still remain.

Our ancestors XVI - early XIX. explosive No doubt that Ilya Muromets is a real historical personality, a warrior who served Kiev prince.

The usual staining of the epic legends, where Ilya leaves "From that, if the city from Murom, from that village from Karachair," would seem to leave the place for doubt that he comes from the Old Russian city of Murom, where there is still not far from him Ancient village Karacharovo. But doubts in the origin of the epic hero arose in the past century, and in our time. The famous hedge is trying to tie with Chernihiv region, where there are cities of Morovysk and Karachev, and where they also have legends about Ilya Muromets. But if you contact us geographic map.This shows that this two cities share hundreds of kilometers and talk about the "Morovo city of Karachev" is absurd. Meanwhile, it is impossible not to notice that Murom, Karachev, Chernihiv, Moroviysk and Kiev are lying on the same line. This is the same "walking apart-apart", which he was driving a bogatyr from his native Murom in Kiev "Through those forests, the Brynsky, through the currant river", through the village of nine oaks, not far from Karachev. That is, there is no contradiction between the classical epics and Karachev's legends. It is also worth noting that the ancient city of Murom has been part of the Chernihiv principality for a long time. The confinement of the name of the epic hero to the city of Muroy quite corresponds to both epic and historical reality. Murom and the Murom Principality were quite significant both in the times of Kiev, Vladimir-Suzdal, and in the days of Moscow Rus to become the birthplace of Ilya Muromet.

Meanwhile, the Russian chronicles do not mention his name. But he is the main acting person Not only our epic, but also the German epic poems of XIIIV, based on earlier legends. In them, he is represented by the powerful Vityaz, the princely kind of Ilya Russian. In the documentary source, the name of this famous hero was first mentioned in 1574. The Messenger of the Roman Emperor Erich Lassat, who visited Kiev in 1594, left a description of the tomb of Ilya Muromets, who was in the Bogatyr feathers of the Sofia Cathedral.

The mystery of the death of Ilya Muromets.

An explanation of this fact may be one thing: the name of the vehicle of the curetis of the eyes of the infant of the Boyars and the princes of the golden century Kievan Rus. Therefore, it was screamed from the chronicles as a unwanted and even outrageous precedent of the dizzying elevation of a simple man.

Especially since he was buried in the attack of the main temple of Kievan Rus - Sofia Kievskaya - a grandnya tombstone (where and the princes were not buried). The boyars about the burial in Sofia Kiev and could not dream, since for them it was the honor of unheard!

Probably, for this reason, at the later tomb, the Tomb "Menietic Boyarina" was destroyed, while the tomb of his comrade in the chapel - the son of the Radio Prince Mala, Dobryni Nikitich, - "survived." About this significant "memory" by the Power of the Power of the Land of the Earth, the Ambassador of the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of Rudolph II Erich Liazot, who visited Kiev from May 7 to May 9, 1594, heading with a diplomatic order to the Zaporozhet to visit the Zaporozhets.

By that time, the concerns about the remains of the legendary person took over the Kiev-Pechersk Laurel, where he rests and today, in the near caves, under a modest inscription above the tomb "Ilya from Murom".

By church calendar Memorial Day Ilya Muromsz, son Ivanovich on December 19, old style, or on January 1, in a new way. By the way, it was January 1, 1993 at the homeland of Ilya Ivanovich, in the village of Karacharov, solemnly installed the icon of the St. Ilya Muromets (with a particle inserted into it with a particle of the relics of the hero, transmitted at the time of Kiev-Pechersk Lavra) in the newly rebuilt church of Guria, Samon and Aviv.

And precisely thanks to the archival materials of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, we at least approximately know the dates of the life of a nationwide beloved warrior.

In 1638, the book "Theratigima" of the monk of the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery Athanasius Kalofoy was printed in the Lavra printing houses. The author, describing the lives of the Saints of Lavra Railways, pays several lines and Ilya, specifying that the hedgehogs lived 450 years before writing a book, that is, in 1188.

The events of those distant years are extremely dramatic. In 1157-1169, Kiev became the arena of internecine conflicts for the right of a great reign. Only for the specified period in the Kiev throne, 8 princes changed, in 1169, the capital degrees was ruined by Andrey Bogolyubsky (by the way, who took from Sofia, the Kiev icon, known now as the icon of Vladimir Mother of God), and from 1169 to 1181, by Kiev, 18 princes, some of They are even several times. In addition, the Polovtsy intervened in the struggle for the grand mining authorities, which committed devastating raids on the Kiev land in the 1973 and 1190 years.

And when examining the body of Ilya Muromsz, the specialists of forensic medicine, it turned out that the epic hero was a victim of one of these raids. According to Sergey Chvedchen (magazine "Around the World", No. 1 for 1994), it happened this is a sad event in 1203 during a devastating raider to Kiev, Rüric and Polovtsy. The city was then taken by the attack, the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery and the Sophia Cathedral were plundered, most of the capital burned herd. According to the evidence of chroniclers, "such ruins in Kiev did not happen." By that year, the bogatyr on the slope of the years accepted monasticism in the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery, so it probably became Ilya for the nicknamed "Muromets" when he was tested - his true name in church chronicles was not preserved. And naturally the former warrior could not stay aside, defending the symbol of the ancient Russian Orthodoxy and its abode.

In the 20th century, the medical examination of the mummified remains of the hero held in the 20th century showed that, judging by his injuries, he did not become easy prey of enemies. On the body of Ilya Muromsz, several wounds were discovered, of which only one was serious - on his hand from a spear, and the fatal - also a twenty, but in the heart of the heart. There are only both feet legs. In addition to the deep round of the wound on the left hand, the same significant damage in the left area of \u200b\u200bthe chest can be seen. It seems that the hero covered his chest with his hand, and she was naught to heart. Relics are closed in monastic clothes. Above the tomb is the image of St. Ilya Muromet.

The first study of the remains of the Bogatyr was conducted in 1963. Then, in the Soviet Atheistic Epoch, the Commission concluded that the mummy belongs to the man of the Mongoloid race, and the wounds are mimicified by the monks of the Lavra. In 1988 The Interdepartmental Commission of the Ministry of Health of the Ukrainian SSR conducted an examination of the relics of St. Ilya Muromets. To obtain objective data, the most modern technique and ultra-precise Japanese equipment were used. Research results are amazing.

Curiously, but in 1701, the wandering priest Ivan Lukyanov visited the catacombs of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra: "... I saw the brave warrior Ilya Muromets in a voting under the coat with a malicious, his hand he had a copier left." The other wound on the chest pilgrim could not see because of the gilded bedspread.

Medicalperts dated the remains with the honor of the Warfish fever of the XII century, and according to Sergey Chvedchen, the time period of the life of Ilya Muromets from 1148 to 1203 years old.

From a modern point of view, the height of the Bogatyr was slightly above the average - 177 cm, but in the XII century, such a man was considered a giant, (and even 350 years after the death of Ilya Muromsz, in 1584, the Lviv merchant Martin Gruneneg was amazed "the relics of the Giant" Old Russian history).

However, the physique of Ilya Muromets really differed from ordinary people "He was" okay cropped and firmly shot down "-" oblique soap in shoulders, "as they used to say in the old days. The phenomenal strength of the warmer was inherited and his distant descendants - the genus of the Karacharovsky village of Gushchi, who could well, like their great ancestor, to move the cargo in the last century, which was not under the horse and horses.

Anatomas noted in the lumbar body of Ilya, the curvature of the spine to the right and explicitly pronounced additional processes on the vertebrae, which made the movement of the hero in the youth due to the infringement of the nerves of the spinal cord. In the same, by the way, it is narrated by the epics, noting that "Thirty Yellow Sydded was sitting Ilya and did not have in the legs of walking." And only the "calibium of disturbing" - the folk healers - they have been imprisoned by Ilya the vertebrae and sent a healing herbal decoction, blessing him to tactful feats.

The fact of the presence of the revered relics of the famous heroes was reflected in the epic texts themselves. So interesting is the end of the epics "Ilya Muromets and Kalin Tsar" performed by the Schegolenkov Schagolenkova: "From these Tatars, yes from the frightened, frank his horse and the Bogatyrskaya, and made the power Yes, and with Stara Cossack Ilya Muromets." Everyone remembers since childhood, that the calibons of the distortion prophesied to the famous Bogatyr, that "death is not written in battle." Therefore, in the eponym and fairy tales about the death of the hero, it is narrated differently: it is one stone, or with other heroes; it lives alive in the coffin and there remains forever; That, together with the kind on falcon, the ship sails somewhere, and since then there is no Westa. But as showed the examination of the relics, the prophecy of the call, unfortunately, did not happen.

The age of the epic hero. Specialists were determined in 40-45 years plus 10 years due to its specific disease. According to the method of reconstruction of the soft parts of the face according to the skull of the famous anthropologist M. M. Gerasimov, the leading specialist in this field, the criminist and sculptor S. Nikitin was recreated the sculptural portrait of Ilya Muromet.

According to Sergey Chvedchen: "The portrait of the master clearly succeeded. In it, the embodiment of calm power, wisdom, generosity and peace. In his eyes there is no repentance, he fought for the right thing and lived life. Strong hands of the hero of the heaven are not on a bouquet sword, but on the monastic staff as a symbol recent years His life spent in the monastery. "

One of the main characters of the ancient Russian epic epic, Bogatyr Ilya Muromets Son Ivan, embodying the overall national ideal of a warrior hero. For the first time, appears in written sources in the XVI century, Kmita Chernobylsky as Ilya Muravlinnin, Erich Lassati, like Ilya Morovlin, in some epics of the XVII century - like Ilya Murovich or Ilya Murovts.

Ilya Muromets appears in the Kiev cycle of the epic: "Ilya Muromets and the Solovy-robber", "Ilya Muromets and Idolische Pogano", "Quarrel of Ilya Muromets with Prince Vladimir", "Fight Ilya Muromets with Zhidovin." In the eponym "Svyatogor and Ilya Muromets" tells how Ilya Muromets studied at the Sagra; And dying, Svyatogor blew into him the Gogatyrian spirit, why the power was added to Ilya, and gave his sword-Kladenian. Prosaic stories about Ilya Muromets recorded in the form of Russian folk fairy tales and transferred to some non-Slavic peoples (Finnam), do not know about the Kiev epic relationships of Ilya Muromets, do not mention Prince Vladimir, replacing him with an unnamed king; They contain almost exclusively the infrared of Ilya Muromets with a straw-robber, sometimes with an idolon called an incineration, and sometimes Ilya Muromstsu is the liberation of the princess from the snake, which the episos do not know about Ilya Muromets.

However, the fairy tale is a fairy tale, the epic - epic, and Ilya Muromets existed in reality, and moreover, the waters of God, the Rev. Elijah, Murometa, for the nickname, lived in the XII century and died in the ink of Kiev-Pechersk Lavra around 1188. The memory of the church calendar - December 19, old style / January 1, a new style.

Significant information about the life of this saint was preserved to our time extremely small. He took place from a simple peasant family. In childhood and youth, suffered paralysis, however miraculously It was healed. Before the post, he consisted in the princely squad and became famous for military exploits and unprecedented force. Wriving in the Anthony caves of the relics. Elijah show that for his time he really possessed very impressive sizes and was headed above a man of medium height.

He is the main acting person not only of our epic, but also the German epic poems of the XIII century, based on earlier legends. In them, he is represented by the powerful Vityaz, the princely kind of Ilya Russian. The relics of the refuge no less vividly testify to the bright military biography - except for the deep round of the wound on the left hand, the same significant damage in the left area of \u200b\u200bthe chest can be seen. It seems that the hero covered his chest with his hand, and she was naught to heart. After quite a successful military career, and, apparently, due to severe injury, Elijah makes it deciding to finish his days in the ink and ragged in the Feodosiyev monastery, now the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. It should be noted that this is a completely traditional step for the Orthodox Warrior - to change the sword Iron on the Sword spiritual and spend days in the battle not for earthly goods, but for heavenly. PS Elijah is not the first and not the last warrior received so. From our compatriots can in this regard recall the great commander pre. Alexander Nevsky, as well as professional warriors of reboot and dock, passing obedience under the start of the pre. Sergius of the Radonezh and the heroic of those killed on the sticker field.

The absence in Kiev-Pechersk grades of the Life of the PRP. Elijah indirectly suggests that in the monocarial exploits, the Holy Warrior managed not so much time. This gives reason to assume that Murom Murom came to the time of Igument. Polycarp Kiev-Pechersky (1164-1182), and under the start of the same great ascetic and there was a spiritual increase in the new warrior of Christ. It is known that prep. Polycarp enjoyed great respect from the Grand Prince Rostislav Mstislavovich. IN Great post The prince used to invite the Feodosiyevoye monastery to himself every Sunday with twelve breeds of the Feodosiyevoye. It is possible that one of the participants of these conversations was the former glorious warrior pre. Or me.

In the XIX century, some researchers questioned the possibility of identifying pre. Elijah Pechersky with the eponymous bolder. However, it is no doubt that for our Orthodox ancestors it was one person. For example, the pilgrim of the XVIII century (Leonthius) speaks in his notes: "The videos of the brave warrior Elijah Muromsz, in the inaccation under the cover of maliciously; the growth of Yako is the current major people; his hand he has a speck of a spear, the ulcer is all to know; and the right is depicted with the godpaure."

IN soviet time Big efforts were taken to dehristianization of the image pred. Elii Muromets in order to turn him into "the embodiment of the national ideal of the warrior". For example, the characteristic cleaning was the famous episode of the episodes, when "Kaliki disturbing" came to immovable Ilé, which in the end and heal Ilya. Who are they - in all Soviet editions omitted. In the pre-revolutionary edition of the episodes "Kaliki" - this is Christ with two apostles.

In 1988, the Interdepartmental Commission of the Ministry of Health of the Ukrainian SSR conducted an examination of the relics of St. Ilya Muromets. To obtain objective data, the most modern technique and ultra-precise Japanese equipment were used. Research results are amazing. The age of 40-55 years has been determined, such spinal defects have been identified, which make it possible to talk about the transfer of extremities in our hero to the paralysis (strictly in accordance with the seed); It has been established that the cause of death has become an extensive wound in the field of heart. Unfortunately, death dating was established very approximately - XI-XII centuries. Interesting the fact that prep. Elijah worship in a prayer position, folding the fingers of the right hand as accepted and now in the Orthodox Church - three first fingers together, and the last two cropped to the palm. In the period of combating an old-supplied split (XVII-XIX centuries), this fact served as strong evidence in favor of three-list addition.

Ilya Muromets was officially canonized in 1643. Among the sixty nine waters of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. The Russian man considers the saint hero of his patron. In 1998, on the territory of one of military units In the suburbs was erected and consecrated by a wonderful temple in the name of St. Ilya Muromet.

Nowadays, the epic image of Elii Murom is still attracting attention, including among non-church people. I would like to believe that at the same time, the living person of a person will not be dissolved as a type of invincible warrior, sincerely dedicated all his life and all his feats in the glory of God. I would like to learn from the pre. Elijah amazing sobriety and prudence, thanks to which we could, like he, being great and capable of earthly matters, do not forget about the kingdom of heaven.

Prayer Saint Rev. Elijah Murom.

Oh Holy Rev. Father Olo! Rusi Holy Intercession, Mighty Ratoborce, Warrior, spiritual and physical to her, in the life of her good of the people of Ruscaggo and the glorification of the God of Christianskago, rightly served, and on the breakdown of his missing his own, as soon as possible, Satya, with the admiration of the Lord Fatherland our king, peace and prosperity, the church of the landscaping, by People Orthodox from the wicked deliverance, the Russian warrior in the rates of victory and on the enemies, plotting the evil churches and the Fatherland Orthodox, the borrowing, all of us we are standing, and we still ask you, the solesm We know our segregation, and the spiritual strength, yes we will swam in our sins, and the Fortress is bodily, yes, the lives of correcting the lives and Russia, and in the kingdom of Heaven, from Belie, and Tamo with you and all the saints, it is advantageous to be incessant praise in the Trinity of Slavimago God Father and son and saint spirit forever. Amen.

Tropar, voice 3

The land of Russian, warrior and the wonderworker of His Elijah Murometa is allegedly, who in the church of the triumphant staying, wings with his own and the church of the militant, on the enemies, visible and invisible to Rusi Holy Holy Lord, and the people of God are impossible.

Tropear, voice 8

I'll enlighten your soul with your soul, with the prayers incessantly the heart of the spirit of the Spirit of the Holy Advisor, I was presented, respect for our ours. Toky, all the entanglement of the militia firmly dismissed Esi, and the victorious of the True reward received from Christ of God. That is praying for our souls.

Rev. Father Elijah, moths of God about us!

As a result, it turned out an adultery of domestic history, evidence that can be found in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.

Name:Ilya Muromets (Ilya Muromets)

Country: Kievan Rus

Creator: Slavic epics

Activity: Bogatyr

Ilya Muromets: Character Character

Static well done on horseback and in armor - such a picture habitually draws imagination at the mention of Ilya Muromet. Disputes around the personality of the Great Russian Bogatyr do not subside for many years. Did Ilya existed in fact? Where do the start of rumors about the magic healing of a man? And is it true that the hero pulled the trees with the root from the ground?

History of creation

Every year, January 1 in Orthodoxy honors the memory of St. Ilya. The man met old age in the Pechersk Lavra and died from the hand of cruel polovtsy. Studies of the remains of the martyr confirm the opinion that the Bogatyr Ilya Muromets is not a fictional character, but a real person.

Analysis of the relevance that scientists spent in 1988 indicates specific features: the deceased man suffered from a rare disease affecting the ability to move. On the bones and the fabrics of saint are marked tracks of injuries. The listed facts give a reason to argue that Elijah Pechersky (a man was buried under the name) - the prototype of a mighty hero.

Perhaps exaggerations that are peculiar to legends and legends are the consequences of a permanent recovery. Or the creators of the epics added a metaphor in the story to impress the listeners.

Muromets really differed from contemporaries. The description of the hero (confirmed by scientists) proves that the growth of the warrior was 177 cm. The average growth of men in ancient Russia did not exceed 160 cm. It is necessary to mention the quotes of Boris Mikhailichenko, researcher of the relics:

"... Mummy's bones are very well developed by the so-called bug soles. And we know that the better the person in the life of the muscles are developed, the more these bugs will have. That is, he has been developed muscular system. "

"In addition, when X-ray studies in the skull, changes were found in the brain department, called the" Turkish saddle ". At all times there are people with such symptomatics, they say about them - "oblique sump in the shoulders."

The first written mention of Ilya Muromets refers to 1574. The Lithuanian Voivode in the note to the remains of Volovich casually mentions the brave warrior "Ilii Murawlenina" and the imprisonment of the Russian hero in the dungeon of the Kiev Prince.

There is a theory that handwritten evidence of the exploits of Muromets was specially destroyed. Allegedly, a doubtful origin of the hero threw the shadow on the vigornikov-boyars and their descendants.

Biography

Fierce disputes are underway about where Ilya Muromets come from. The initial theory says that the boys was born in the village of Karacharovo, which is located near the city of Murom Vladimir region.

Hero's life researchers are adhere to the explanation that the Motherland Salik is the village of Karachev, located next to the Morovo Chernihiv region. The alleged places of birth of the hero are consonant, so the error easily crushed into the epic.

To get reliable information about the origin of a man is not yet possible. Exclude the likelihood that Ilya Muromets - Ukrainian, is not worth it. By the way, the patronymic of the famous hero - Ivanovich:

"And in a glorious in the Russian kingdom,
And in Toving the village of Karacharov,
Honest with glorious parents, Mother
Son Ilya Ivanovich was somewhere
And on the nickname was a glorious Muromet. "

The kid who was born in the family of a peasant, since childhood suffered from an unknown disease. The child did not feel lower limbs And he could not move independently. The family was rumored that the cause of the disease was cursed. Grandfather Ilya did not want to take Christianity and destroyed the Orthodox icon. For disrespect for the saint, the descendant of the genets was paid.

A detailed biography of the hero is traced from the 33th anniversary of the hero. Ilya, suffering from his own weakness, lay on the furnace. Suddenly knocked on the door. "Kaliki disturbing" (they are the folk healers) helped the future warriors to stand up. For the wonderful salvation, Ilya gave the floor to protect Russian land from enemies and a sin of his grandfather.

Having received the long-awaited freedom, the man left his native village and went to perform feats. On the way to Kiev Ilya collided with the first serious opponent. Terrorized the county, not allowing travelers to overcome the Bryn Forest.

The fight ended quickly, and the man delivered confused to the rest. Vladyka Rusi was impressed by the fellow of a man, but the peasant outfit caused displeasure in the reign. Instead of the rewards promised for the robber, the king threw to the feet of Ilya was a worn fur coat. The brave did not bother offense. For the bold behavior of Murometa put under the castle.

Perhaps this would be over the feats of men, but Polovtsy attacked Russia. Showing military talents, physical strength and peasant seamless on the battlefield, Muromets earned a place in the squad of the king.

A little more than 10 years, Bogatyr injected orders in the territory ancient Russia. The man committed a lot of exploits, about whom legends and songs were made. Favorite weapons Ilya is a heavy Bulaw and a sword-Cladiest, who presented the man of the Bogatyr Svyatogor.

There is a change of power, and a new Vladyka goes to the throne. The word about the shelf of Igor "tells the" Word about the regiment of Igor ", leads a squad into battle with the old enemy. But nomads are too much, Ilya Muromsz is seriously wounded. And here the theories about the fate of the hero again diverge:

"... From these Tatars, yes from the dies, it frank his horse and the Bogatyrskaya, and the power was made, but the holy I, and Stara Cossack Ilya Muromets."

In other words, the hero died during the contraction. Another epics claims that the faithful horse makes the owner from the battlefield. A man comes into consciousness at the walls of the monastery and remembers the promise to sue the sin of his grandfather. Ilya throws the ammunition and takes a post. The remaining years a man holds in the Kiev-Pechersk monastery, giving a promise not to take a weapon in the hands.

In the "Tale of Bygone Years", a civil war is mentioned between Rurik Rostislavovich and Roman Mstislavovich. In the battle, besides Russian princes, Mercenaries were participating. Rogues got to the monastery and killed clergy. Ilya, the faithful vow, did not take a weapon in his hands and died from the blow of a spear in the heart.

Shielding

Ilya Muromets, who stopped at the stone, is the usual image since childhood. It is not surprising that many filmmakers and cartoons are filmed about the warriot, many paintings are written.

The first to try on the role of a powerful warranty was managed. The film "Ilya Muromets" came out in 1956. The plot was based on classic epics about the boys and scenes from fairy tales.

The Soviet cartoon about the warrior saw the light in 1975. The second part was released on the screen in three years. Multiplication films tell about the iconic events in the life of the warrant. Music design serve compositions from the opera "Ilya Muromets".

In 2007, the studio of animation cinema "Mill" released the cartoon "Ilya Muromets and the Nightingale-Robber". The image of a few silica loved by the kids and their parents (the one who voiced the hero did not have to memorize a lot of text) later will appear in four cartoons dedicated to Russian richors. Valery Solovyov became the voice of Muromet and.

In film " Real fairy tale"(2010) The epic character was transferred to modern reality. Ilya occupies the position of guard Koschery Immortal and is not at all like a true hero.

Alexey Dmitriev as Ilya Muromsz in the film "Real Fairy Tale"

In addition to movies, the image of a strong and bold man was reflected in painting, musical compositions, performances and computer games.

Ilya Muromets is mentioned in the German epos. In the legends, the hero is named Ilya Russian.
In foreign sources, the wife and children of the warrior are also mentioned, according to which a man misses long-haired camps.
Researchers argue that Ilya died aged 45-50 years.
For unknown reasons, the remains of Ilya Muromets (or rather, the intended prototype) did not give in to complete decomposition. Believers believe that the holy relics of the hero heal the disease of the spine.

Quotes

"I am going to serve the Christian faith, and for earth RussianYes, and for the solar kiev hail ... "

"I am from the city from Murom, Ilya, Son Ivanovich. And I arrived here directly by the city of Chernigov, past the currant river. "

"My light-father has a voracious cow. I also ate a lot. Yes, at the end she cracked the belly "

"Run, the popyan, in its place, do it take everywhere such fame: Russia is not empty."

"You forgive me, mother, not an employee I'm in the field, not a miner. Kalin-king prepared the harder in the heart of Kiev. Not great to me, well done, honor to sit in Karacharov. "

Ilya Muromets

Mythology:	Slavyanskaya
Origin:	Peasant origin, the village of Karacharovo under Murom
Mention:	"Observing the strength of Ilyona Muromers"; "Ilya Muromets and Svyatogor"; "Ilya Muromets and the nightingale-robber"; "Ilya Muromets and Idolische"; ""; Ilya Muromets and Zhigovin and others.
	Ivan Timofeevich
	Efrosinya Yakovlevna
	Zaleghorca (Baba Goryninka)
	Son - Sokolnik (or Polyana's daughter in another version)
Related Characters:	Nephew Ermak, Svyatogor, Dobrynya Nikitich

Historical prototype

Elijah Pechersky

Ileiko Muromets

Sensational studies

Murom or Morovsk

Feats of Russian herakla

Literature

art

Computer games

Ilya Muromets (Full epic name - Ilya Muromets Son Ivan) - one of the main characters of the ancient Russian epic epic, the bogatyr, embodying the overall national ideal of the warrior hero.

Ilya Muromets appears in the Kiev cycle of the epic: "Ilya Muromets and the Solovy-robber", "Ilya Muromets and Idolische Pogano", "Quarrel of Ilya Muromets with Prince Vladimir", "Fight Ilya Muromets with Zhidovin." In the eponym "Svyatogor and Ilya Muromets" It tells how Ilya Muromets studied at the Sagra; And dying, he blew into him the spirit of the Bogatlish, why the strength was added to Ilya, and gave his sword to Kladenian. Prose stories about Ilya Muromets, recorded in the form of Russian folk fairy tales and passed to some non-Slavic peoples (Finnam), also do not know about the Kiev epic relations of Ilya Muromets, do not mention Prince Vladimir, replacing him with an unnamed king; They contain almost exclusively the infrared of Ilya Muromets with a straw-robber, sometimes with an idolon called an incineration, and sometimes Ilya Muromstsu is the liberation of the princess from the snake, which the episos do not know about Ilya Muromets.

On the assumption of some historians Russian Empire His small homeland could not be the village of Karacharovo under Murom, and the village of Karachev, near the city of Morovysk in Chernigov region (modern village Morovsk, Kozhelets district, Chernihiv region of Ukraine), which leads from Chernigov to Kiev. This conclusion is based on the possibility of merging in the epos of the image of Ilya Muromets with Rev. Or Pechurch. This version received special popularity in the works of modern Ukrainian historians.

Epic stories whose chief hero is Ilya Muromets

According to S. A. Azbel, which has 53 stories of heroic epic, Ilya Muromets is the main character of 15 of them (No. 1-15 according to the Azbel signpost).

Observing the strength of Ilyoye Muromers (Healing Ilya Muromets)
Ilya Muromets and Svyatogor
Ilya Muromets and nightingale-robber
Ilya Muromets and Idolische
Ilya Muromets in a quarrel with Prince Volodymar
Ilya Muromets and Holy Kabatsky (rarely exists in the form of a separate plot, usually attached to the plots about a quarrel with Vladimir)

I go to serve as a Christian faith,

And for the land of Russian,

Yes, and for the solar kiev hail,

For widows, for orphans, for poor people

And for you, young princess, Spriction, Spriction,

And for the dog, the prince Vladimir

Yes, I would not come out of the cellar.

Ilya Muromets on a falcon-ship
Ilya Muromets and Robbers
Three trips Ilya Muromets
Ilya Muromets and Bati-King
Ilya Muromets and Zhidovin
Ilya Muromets and Tugarin (about wife Ilya Muromets)
Ilya Muromets and Sokolnik
Ilya Muromets, Ermak and Kalin King
Cocal side
Ilya Muromets and Kalin King
D. Dobryni Nikitich's fight with Ilya Murom
Ilya Muromets and Alesha Popovich

For each plot, the number of individual options recorded from different obstellers is calculated with tens and may exceed a hundred (No. 3, 9, 10), they were mainly from 12 to 45 or more.

The epic biography of Ilya Muromets

A large number of plots dedicated to Ilya Muromtsu gives the opportunity to present in a more or less one-piece biography of this heroic (as it was presented to the teachers).

According to the healing of Ilya Muromets, this bogatyr up to 33 years old (the age in which Christ died and was resurrected) "did not own" with their hands and legs, and then got wonderful healing from the elders (or the call of disturbing). Who are they - in all Soviet editions omitted; In the pre-revolutionary edition, the epics believes that Kaliki is Christ with two apostles. Kaliki, coming to the house to Ilya, when there was no one except him, they ask him to get up and bring them water. Ilya answered it: "I don't have any hands, no legs, sit thirty years on a commander." They re-ask Ilya to get up and bring them water. After that, Ilya rises, goes to waterpath and brings water. The elders are veyd Ilya to drink water. Ilya drank and recovered, after the second drink he feels an exorbitant force in himself, and he is given to drink for the third time to reduce it. After, the elders speak Ilya that he should go to the service for the prince Vladimir. At the same time, they mention that on the way to Kiev there is a non-heightened stone with the inscription, which Ilya should also visit. After, Ilya says goodbye to his parents, brothers and relatives and departs "to the so-in-country kiev" and comes first "to that calamine". On the stone was written the call for Ilya to move the stone from the stationary place. There he will find the horse of Bogatyr, weapon and armor. Ilya pushed the stone and found everything that was written there. Horse he said: "Ay you are a horse of the Bogatyr! Serve, you are faithful to me. " After that, Ilya jumps to the prince Vladimir.

Folklore outside the Russian North

Only a few eponymous plots named Ilya Muromsz are known outside the provinces of Olonetskaya, Arkhangelsk and Siberia (Kirshi Danilov and S. Glyaev collection). Outside of these areas, only a few plots are recorded ...

Ilya Muromets and the nightingale-robber;
Ilya Muromets and robbers;
Ilya Muromets on a falcon-ship
Ilya Muromets and Son.

In the middle and southern parts of Russia, only epics without attaching Ilya Muromets to Kiev and KN. Vladimir, and the most popular stories in which the Robbers (Ilya Muromets and Robbers) or Cossacks play the role of the Robbers (Ilya Muromets on a falcon-ship), which testifies to the popularity of Ilya Muromets in the Wolne-Loaded Population Environment, Yaika and Particular .

Often there is a mixture of Ilya Muromets with Ilyoy the Prophet. This mixture occurred on the alleged epic homeland of Ilya Muromets, in the peasant representation of the village of Karacharovo (near Murom), and in the stories of these peasants, the relationship of Ilya Muromets to Kiev and Prince Vladimir are not mentioned at all. The study of the epic biography of Ilya Muromets leads to the conviction that many fabulous and legendary wandering plots lay in the name of this popular heroitor.

Bogatyr Ilya is a hero of not only Russian epic, but also the German epic poems of the XIII century. In them, he is represented by the powerful knight of the princely kind Ilya Russian.

Historical prototype

Elijah Pechersky

The prototype of the epic character, part of the researchers, considers the historical character, strongly for the nickname "Chobitan", from Murom who took a monasticism in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra with the name Elijah, and ranked in 1643 to the Famine of Saints orthodox church Like "Rev. Elijah Muromet."

According to this theory, Ilya Murometh lived in the XII century and died in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra around 1188. The memory of the church calendar is December 19 (1) January.

The theory of the identity of the epic hero with Inok - Chobytko, Kiev-Pechersk Lavra is quite believable.

Russian chronicles do not mention his name. After wonderful healing, goes to Orthodoxy and choose a new name Ilya.

Relics rest in the near caves of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. The tombstone of Ilya Muromets is located near the grave of Stolypin. Part of the relics of Ilya is the middle finger of the left hand, is located in one of the temples of the city of Murom, Vladimir region.

Ileiko Muromets

In the XVII century, Ilyuko Muromets was known (Ilya Ivanovich Korovin) - the impostor of the false time of the time of the troubled time, executed in 1607. According to scientists, in particular, the Russian historian Ilovaysky, the expression "old Cossack" is explained by the fact that at the end of the reign of Boris Godunov, Muromets was in the Cossack squad, as part of the troops of Prince Ivan Brovostinin. B. M. Sokolov wrote that the essential fact of the peasant processing of the epic was the transformation of Ilya Muravlenin from Murovo and the city of Karachev in Chernihiv in the Peasant Son Ilya Muromets and the village of Karacharovo under Murom.

Sensational studies

IN 1988 The year, the inter partitioned commission conducted a study of the relevance Reverend Ilya Muromets. The results were striking. This was strong mandied in age 45-55 years, high growth - 177 see the fact that in XII. century, when Ilya lived, such a person was considered rather high, because the average growth of a man was 165 see More Those, on the bones of Ilya, scientists discovered traces of many battles - multiple fractures of the clavicle, broken ribs, traces from the blow of a spear, saber, sword. This confirmed the legends that Ilya was a powerful warrior, a participant in brutal battles.

But most of all scientists struck another: they claim that, in complete agreement with folk legends, Ilya really for a long time Could not walk! According to the investigator, the reason for this was a severe disease - bone tuberculosis or poliomyelitis. This was the cause of the paralysis of the legs.

Born Ilya Muromets about between 1150 and 1165 gg And he died at the age of about 40–55 years, as assumed when taking Kiev Prince Rurik Rostislavichich in 1204 When Pechersk Lavra was defeated by the Allied Rurik Polovtsy. The cause of death served, apparently, the blow of a sharp gun (spear or sword) in the chest.

Curse and wonderful healing

In the people of mouth, the mouth passed such history. As if grandfather Ilya Muromets was a pagan and, without recognizing Christianity, once ruined the icon. Since then, the curse fell on his genus - all the boys will be born cripples.

After 10 years was born IlyaAnd it seemed that the curse was fulfilled: the boy from childhood could not walk. All attempts to cure him were not crowned with success. But Ilya did not give up, stubborn his hands, developed the muscles, becoming more and more strong, but, alas, she still could not walk. Years went, and probably more than once it seemed to him that you need to accept the fate: he will forever remain crippled.

But when Ilya was fulfilled 33 years, something unexplained. The day came, which cool and forever changed his life. The house includes the prophetic elders - the calibium of disturbing (beggar wanderers), and asked the boy to submit water. He explained that he could not walk. But the guests persistently repeated the request, which sounded already as an order. And Ilya, suddenly feeling unprecedented power, first stood on his feet ...

What is it? Wonderful healing? Maybe. But how strange guests managed to heal, it would seem hopelessly a patient? On this account there are different assumptions. For example, that the wanderers were volvy And the magicians and knew the secrets of ancient conspiracy.

And other scientists suggest that it was the case self-describing, explain which science is not yet able to ...

Anyway, Ilya got on his feet after 33 fixability years. And scientists who conducted research of the relics confirm that the bone tissue of this person was miraculously recovered. Moreover, by their conclusion, after thirty years he led an active lifestyle, which fully corresponds to the episodes.

Murom or Morovsk

Regarding the birthplace of Ilya, there are also different versions. The most common thing is that it happens from the village Karacharovo, near the city Murom. This village, located on the banks of the Oka, exists today.

But some researchers argue that Ilya was born not far from Kiev - in Morovsk (Morovian) under Chernigovwhich in antiquity was called Muromsky. Since the legends say that before Kiev Ilya got very quickly, in one day (which is hardly possible in the case of the city of Murom, which is about 1500 km from Kiev), this version is very believable. Yes, but according to the eponyms, Ilya happened From the village of Karacharovo? It turns out, not far from Chernigov was an ancient city Karachev. Moreover, the river flows near Karachev Currant, and on the shore it is an ancient village Nineidubier. Local old-timers point to the place where the nest was located Solovya Robber. And now on the shore of the currant is a huge sizes of a stump, which by legend, preserved from nine oaks.

Feats of Russian herakla

After wonderful healing Ilya Muromets, as it should be the heroes and heroes, makes numerous exploits. The most famous feat is the victory over Solovy-robber.

Researchers believe that Nightingale robber - Not a fabulous mound, but also a real historical personality, a robber, which produced in the forests on the road to Kiev. And the nightingale of this robber was called for notifying his attack by a whistle (or perhaps gave a whistle a signal to his gang to attack). In the future Ilya Murometsmany other feats made, participated in battles, protecting the Russian Earth to the enemies. Contemporaries celebrated his incredible, inhuman power, so in the memory of people he remained, probably the most great Russian rich. It is enough to remember the picture "Three Bogatiors", at which Ilya Muromets is depicted in the center - as the strongest and mighty.

In the eponym and legends, three heroes - Ilya Muromets, Alesha Popovich and Dobrynya Nikitich - often make feats together. But in fact they never met. They were divided by the century - Dobrynya Nikitich lived in the 10th century, Alyosha Popovich - in the 13th century, and Ilya - in the 12th century. But when the legends of the centuries are transmitted from one generation to another, they turn new details, the famous characters begin to make new feats, and the time frames are gradually blurred and displaced. Contrary to legends Ilya Muromets I never served as the prince Vladimir Great. They simply could not meet, because they lived in different centuries. Ilya served prince Svyatoslavdefending Russia from Polovtsy.

But if it really is so, and Ilya Muromets - Historical person, why there is no word in the chronicles? First, from those times not so many written sources have been preserved, which is quite natural, if you recall what a rapid history Russia has survived. Hordes of conquerors have become incorused and completely destroyed the city. In one of the fires one day, the books of Pechersk Lavra were burned.

And secondly, there are mentions in foreign sources. For example, in the German epic poems recorded in Xii. century, but based on earlier legends, the great bogatyr is mentioned Ilya English. Lelda says that in one in the cruel battle, Ilya almost died, but miraculously stayed alive and gave vow to retire to the monastery, devote himself to God and never take a sword in his hands. Ilya came to the walls of the Lavra, removed all the military armor with himself, but could not throw a sword and took him with him. He became a monk Pechersk Lavra And all his days spent in his cell in prayers.

But once the enemies approached the walls of the monastery, and Ilya saw with his own eyes the death of the abbot of Lavra, struck by a fatal blow. And then Ilya, despite the vow, picked up the sword again. But I felt that the legs again refuse to serve him. He still managed to tear off his hand from a mortal blow to a spear, but the forces had already left him ...

Was it really? It is unlikely that we will ever find out. But it is undoubtedly one thing: scientists found that Ilya really died as a result of the impact of a spear in the chest and that he, apparently, tried to stop the spear on the fly, and it was little weakened. But the resulting wound did not heal and eventually became the cause of the death of Muromet.

Ilya Muromets in Russian culture

Monuments

In 1999, a monument to Ilya Muromstsu of the sculptor V. M. Klyukova was established in Murom's City Park
In 2012, a monument to St. Ilya Muromets of the Sculptor Zinich was established in the Admiral Square of the city of Vladivostok. The monument is a gift of the "Steampi" and the public of the city of Krasnoyarsk in the city of Vladivostok.

Objects mentioned in honor of Ilya Muromets

Geographical objects

One of the highest waterfalls of Russia is located on the Pearbinsist of the Pearls, one of the highest waterfalls is called Ilya Muromets.
In the area of \u200b\u200bKiev on Dnieper is the island of Muromets - a landscaped park and a favorite place of rest of the citizens.

Organizations

Film studio of children's and youth films "Ilya Muromets"
Open Passion Investment Fund "Troika Dialog - Ilya Muromets"

Technics

Ilya Muromets - Frigate of the Russian Imperial Fleet.
In 1913, the name of the hero was the aircraft-bomber created by the aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky.
"Ilya Muromets" is one of the aircraft guns of Gulkevich.
Ilya Muromets - armored car
Ilya Muromets - Russian and Soviet icebreaking steamer 1915 buildings
The name "Ilya Muromets" wore a red armored train in Civil War
Ilya Muromets - Light armored train of the Don Army of White Movement to the Civil War.
"Ilya Muromets" - one of the CS tanks
Ilya Muromets - Soviet armored train in the Great Patriotic War. His armorParosomoz is currently installed as a monument in the city of Murom.
In 1958, the cruise ship "Ilya Muromets" was commissioned
Ilya Muromets - Soviet portland of 1965 Buildings, head ship of the project 97k
Ilya Muromets - Soviet strategic bomber Tu-160 with onboard number 06

Literature

Fiction

"Historia about Ilya Muromster" - handwritten folk book of the XVIII century
Ilya Muromets - an unfinished poem ("Bogatyr Fairy Tale") N. M. Karamzin
Ilya Muromets - Ballade A. K. Tolstoy
Jan Rainis wrote the tragedy "Ilya Muromets" (1922)
Ilya Muromets - Character of the story of Vasily Shukshin "To third roosters".
Ilya Muromets - the main character Ivan Koshkin's novel of the same name.
Ilya - the Central Character of Roman Oleg Divova "Herbra", which is intended, according to the author "Immersion in the atmosphere of that time." The struggle of heroes with the Solovy-Robber is interpreted in the novel with the attraction of the hypothesis about the people who have lived before that time, and the nickname "Muromets" is interpreted as a distorted "urmanine", that is, Viking, Varyag. In addition to the novel, the book contains an extensive application of a popular science character, giving a rather detailed historical certificate and an overview of various hypotheses about the prototype and the origin of the epic hero.
Ilya Son Ivanov is one of the main characters of the historical novel Ninth Savior Anatoly Brusnikna. Images of other fabulous characters are guessed: Dmitry Nikitin, Alexey Popov, Vasilisa.

Modern folklore

In the modern Russian folklore, Ilya Muromets is the hero of a small cycle of jokes (usually along with Alesh Popovich and Dobryna Nikitich).

art

Painting

Ilya Muromets - the character of the picture of Viktor Vasnetsov "Bogatyri", under the impression of the epics "Ilya Muromets and Robbers" he also wrote a picture of "Vityaz on the crossroads".
"Ilya Muromets on Piru at Prince Vladimir" - Painting V. P. Vereshchagin
Ilya Muromets - Picture of Nikolai Roerich
"Ilya Muromets relies the prisoners", "Ilya Muromets and Gol Kabatskaya", "Ilya Muromets in a quarrel with Prince Vladimir", "Dar of the Siberiana" - Pictures of Konstantin Vasilyeva

Illustrations

To the epics about Ilya Muromster, Ivan Bilibin created illustrations: "Ilya Muromets", "Ilya Muromets and Svyatogor", "Ilya Muromets and the Solovy-Robber", "Ilya Muromets and the wife of the Siberiana".

Engravings

There are chest paintings about Ilya Muromster: "Ilya Muromets and the Nightingale-Robber", "Strong and Brave Bogatyr Ilya Muromets."

Plastic

"Ilya Muromets and the Solovy-Robber" - Composition from the porcelain of the sculptor S. M. Orlova

Music

Operas

Katerino Kavos wrote Opera Ilya-Bogatyr to Libretto Ivan Krylov.
In Opere-Farca, the composer Alexander Borodin "Bogati" is the role of Ilya Muromets.
Composer Leonid Malashkin wrote Opera "Ilya Muromets, or Russian Bogati"
Ilya Muromets - the character of Opera Mikhail Ivanova "Fun Putyitsna".
"Ilya Muromets" - Opera Valentina Serovoy
Opera Ilya Muromets composer Boris Feoktistov.

Symphony works

In 1909-11, composer Ringold Gliere created the 3rd symphony called "Ilya Muromets".

Choral music

In 2011, the composer Andrei Mikita wrote the "Slavs to Reverend or Muromsky" for mixed chorus, soloists and three children's votes.

Mass music

The Gaza Sector has a song "Ilya Muromets"
The Gas Attack Group has an album "Rock-epics Ilya Muromets"

Theatre

The play "Ilya Muromets, the Peasant Son" theater of the dolls them. S. V. Exodinova (1951).
Ilya Muromets - one of the characters of the Russian district

Films

In 1956, on the reasons of the epics of Ilya, Muromster in the USSR, the game film "Ilya Muromets" was shot. Director Alexander Ptushko, Artist of the leading role - Boris Andreev.
The image of Ili Muromets was used in the film "This Rogish Sidorov" (1984).
In 1975-1978, the Dilogy of cartoons "Ilya Muromets (Prolog)" and "Ilya Muromets and the Solovy-Robber" was shot.
At the end of 2007, the cartoon film "Ilya Muromets and the Solovy-Robber" came out, in 2010 - three heroes and Shamakhan Queen, whose main character is also Ilya. In the first one of them, it is described about how the deserted Kiev Prince and Ilya Muromets went to cut out the horse of Ilya and the treasury, stolen Solovy, who escaped the Majantine, to the city of Tsargrad, where the rules Emperor Vasilev. In the second cartoon of Bogatyri, headed by Ilya, they save the prince from the Char of the Cunning Shamakhan Queen.
In 2010, the film "Adventures in the Thif of the Threeth Kingdom" was released, where Ilya Muromets played Stanislav Ladnikov.
In 2011, the film "Real Fairy Tale" came out, where Ilya Muromets played Alexey Dmitriev.

Computer games

At the end of 2008, a computer adventure game "Three heroes. The first series ", in which Ilya is represented along with Dobryna Nikitich and Alesh Popovich. According to the plot of the game, it is necessary to fight with the robbers inherent in Russia and defeat their chapter - the nightingale-robber in the final. And the final battle with the nightingale Ilya leads one to one.
In the game on the cartoon of the cartoon Ilya Muromets goes in the footsteps of the nightingale - the robber, in some missions with him in the company will be Kiev Prince. They will have to talk to Alesh Popovich, his assistant to Eremem, the immortal, Baba Yaga and others.
In the game Mechwarrior Online, one of the varints of the catphract combat robot has the name Ilya Muromets (Ilya Muromets)

The Russian land is rich in natural resources, is saturated with historical values \u200b\u200band full of miracles. A special place here is occupied by the lives of great people who have made history. But the more the extent of the limit of any event, the likely to meet discrepancies in historical facts. This applies to such a person as Ilya Muromets. The biography of this person still causes controversy and generates speculation.

Russian bogatyrs

Large importance in history is attached to people who defended native land. At all times, the Troubles, strife and wars were their heroes, those who often defended their homeland. Sometimes the course of combat may depend on one person. Especially if these people led the troops as Alexander Nevsky, Dmitry Donskoy, Prince Igor and Svyatoslav.

More than others succeeded in Rurikovich. Estimation of the centuries defended Russian land from raids of pagans. And as the story says, Russia was often exposed to invasion of the interemphetics.

He began to talk about the heroes from the time of the board of Prince Vladimir. In 988, the Grand Duke accepted the most important decision in history for Russian lands. But after the baptism of Russia's rules, it was subjected to numerous attacks from enemies.

However, it was precisely this and contributed to the glove of defenders to which the Russian Bogatyr Ilya Muromets was counted. The biography of this warmer is not fully revealed. History reports about the impostors who wanted to use someone else's glory.

Ilya Muromets: Biography Through history

The place of birth of defender Rus is considered to be the village of Karacharov, which is under Murom. About the date of birth of official data is not, but it was more eight hundred years ago. It is known that his parents were older peasants.

The main key point based on the eponyms is the acquisition of strength. The first mention of the defender is dedicated to the story, from where Ilya Muromets appeared. Biography tells about the wonderful healing of the future hero.

Miracle who presented the Kiev Rus Defender

Up to 33 years (in different sources there are differences of age) Ilya Muromets did not own hands and legs, being rude from birth. One day, when he was at home alone, approached the elder windows overlooking. Asked him alms and drink. Ilya in the house they invited them, but he said that alms would give, if he could walk. Then the elders ordered him to get up from the furnace and go. After obedating them, the future warrior tears from the furnace and to his great surprise went, it seems and did not hurt before.

And when the elders of the water brought to them, they ordered him to finish the remnants. I drank Ilya of water and felt such a force in myself, as if the Earth would be able to turn everything. After that, the elders told him a horse to find and head to the prince to go. So began the service of the hero on the protection of frayment.

About the exploits

The legendary person was Ilya Muromets. The biography is briefly set out in the eponymies and legends that praised him.

In the service of Prince Vladimir Ilya, Muromets gathered a friend mighty and was put by the prince mainly over the warriors. By that time, the existence of many other glorified warriors is also ranked. And Ilie's learn was to learn. After all, his godfather was a famous rich. Samson Samoilovich also entered the princely squad, in which Ilya Muromets consisted.

Biography, a brief content of which states about the exploits of the hero, however, was transferred to short episins that went in the people. And here you can only guess, whose prototype was the enemies of Ilya Muromets.

It is known that the Great Defender kept Russian lands from enemy raids, fought with other innovative heroes, as well as the heroes of the epics. They all carried the threat of Russia, robbed or tried to capture power and land. In the eponym, these heroes are named: a nightingale robber, idolochka frowning, dragon and others.

The memory of the St. Holy

Bogatyr Ilya Muromets, whose biography talks about numerous exploits, is most often identified with the saints of Elijah Pechersk. The relics of the Reverend are still stored nonploven in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. However, it follows from this that the hedgehogs lived for 150-200 years later Vladimir Great, which is mentioned in the eponymies. But this can be explained by the fact that Prince Vladimir was more famous than his successors, because it was mentioned in the folk tales even after death.

Scientists have established that Ilya Muromets was killed in a battle in the heart. And his power testifies to numerous combat injuries. Perhaps it is hard injured in battle who served as a reason to take a hazard into the monks.

Folk fictions and epics

In the homeland of the hero, there were epics, identifying his image with the holy prophet. However, it is impossible to consider the truth. The only thing that unites these people is a name. Although there are no accurate information about the years of the life of Ilya Muromets, but all historical facts about him testify about the reign of Russian princes.

And this means that the history of the hero can be ranked approximately 970-1200 years. While the prophet Elijah lived before the Nativity of Christ. It turns out that there are more than a thousand years of these people between the lives of these people. In addition, it is believed that the prophet Elija, the only one of the people except Blessed Virgin Mary, he was ascended by God to heaven, not dying, along with the body. And the power of Ilya Muromets is stored to this day.

In the life of great people, there is always a place for folk speculations and legends, especially if it is supported by time. So the life of the Russian heroist remained uncovered, shrouded in the curtain of the mystery. And the epics and folk tales about it are also common far beyond the Russian Earth. And everyone is well aware of who Ilya Muromets. Bogatyr biography has to write books and creating films about a selfless defender.