page_title: Ilya Muromets
hierarchical_section_title: Ilya Muromets
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Богатырский скок. Дом-музей В.М.Васнецова, МоскваEnglish: Knight's ride
context_page_description: Ilya Muromets, or Ilya of Murom, sometimes Ilya Murometz, is one of the bogatyrs from the Rus' folklore. In the legends he is often featured alongside fellow bogatyrs Dobrynya Nikitich and Alyosha Popovich.
  Although Ilya Muromets's adventures are mostly a matter of legend, he is associated with a historical figure: a medieval warrior, and in later life a monk, named Ilya Pechersky. Venerable Ilya Pechersky is beatified as a monastic saint of the Orthodox Church. His relics are preserved in the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, Ukraine.
context_section_description: Ilya Muromets  (Russian: Илья Муромец, Ukrainian: Ілля Муромець), or Ilya of Murom, sometimes Ilya Murometz, is one of the bogatyrs (epic knights) from the Rus' folklore. In the legends he is often featured alongside fellow bogatyrs Dobrynya Nikitich and Alyosha Popovich.
  Although Ilya Muromets's adventures are mostly a matter of legend, he is associated with a historical figure: a medieval warrior, and in later life a monk, named Ilya Pechersky. Venerable Ilya Pechersky is beatified as a monastic saint of the Orthodox Church. His relics are preserved in the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, Ukraine.
caption: Ilya Muromets (1914) by Viktor Vasnetsov
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