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Bylina, the Glossary

A bylina (былина) is a type of Russian oral epic poem.^[1]

47 relations: Alexander Hilferding, Alyosha Popovich, Arkhangelsk, Bodleian Library, Bogatyr, Boyar, Dobrynya, Dobrynya Nikitich, Duke Stepanovich, Epic poetry, European dragon, Evpaty Kolovrat, Folklore of Russia, Folklore studies, Great Russia, Ilya Muromets, Ivan Sakharov, Kievan Rus', Kirsha Danilov, Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, Lake Onega, Leonid Maykov, Mikula Selyaninovich, Nightingale the Robber, Nikita the Tanner, Oleg the Wise, Olonets Governorate, Onega, Russia, Oral literature, Pavel Rybnikov, Perm, Russia, Principality of Ryazan, Prokofi Akinfiyevich Demidov, Richard James (scholar), Russian North, Sadko, Siberia, Slavic dragon, Slavic Review, Svyatogor, The Tale of Igor's Campaign, Vasily Buslayev, Vladimir the Great, Vladimir-Suzdal, Voivode, Volga Svyatoslavich, Vsevolod Miller.
Epic poetry
Russian folklore
Russian legends
Russian poetry

Alexander Hilferding

Alexander Hilferding (also spelled Aleksandar Fedorovich Giljferding; Александр Фёдорович Гильферди́нг; 14 July 1831 – 2 July 1872) was a Russian linguist and folklorist of German descent who collected some 318 bylinas in the Russian North.

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Alyosha Popovich

Alyosha Popovich (Алёша Попович, Олешко Попович, literally Alexey, son of the priest), is a folk hero of Kievan Rus', appearing in Russian folklore.

See Bylina and Alyosha Popovich

Arkhangelsk

Arkhangelsk (Арха́нгельск), also known as Archangel and Archangelsk, is a city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.

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Bodleian Library

The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford.

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Bogatyr

A bogatyr (a, p) or vityaz (p, p) is a stock character in medieval East Slavic legends, akin to a Western European knight-errant. Bylina and bogatyr are Russian folklore.

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Boyar

A boyar or bolyar was a member of the highest rank of the feudal nobility in many Eastern European states, including Bulgaria, Kievan Rus' (and later Russia), Moldavia and Wallachia (and later Romania), Lithuania and among Baltic Germans.

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Dobrynya

Dobrynya (Добрыня, Добриня) was Vladimir the Great's maternal uncle and tutor.

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Dobrynya Nikitich

Dobrynya Nikitich (Добрыня Никитич) is one of the most popular bogatyrs (epic knights) from the "Kievan" series of Russian folklore based on bylina (epic songs) originating from the area around the capital of the Kievan Rus, Kiev.

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Duke Stepanovich

Duke Stepanovich (Дюк Степанович) is a character in Bylina.

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Epic poetry

An epic poem, or simply an epic, is a lengthy narrative poem typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants.

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European dragon

The European dragon is a legendary creature in folklore and mythology among the overlapping cultures of Europe. Bylina and European dragon are medieval legends.

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Evpaty Kolovrat

Evpaty Kolovrat (Yevpaty Kolovrat,; – 1238) is a Russian bogatyr described in The Tale of the Destruction of Ryazan.

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Folklore of Russia

Folklore of Russia is folklore of Russians and other ethnic groups of Russia.

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Folklore studies

Folklore studies (less often known as folkloristics, and occasionally tradition studies or folk life studies in the United Kingdom) is the branch of anthropology devoted to the study of folklore.

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Great Russia

Great Russia, sometimes Great Rus' (Великая Русь, Velikaya Rus', Великая Россия, Velikaya Rossiya, Великороссия, Velikorossiya), is a name formerly applied to the territories of "Russia proper", the land that formed the core of the Grand Duchy of Moscow and later the Tsardom of Russia.

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Ilya Muromets

Ilya Muromets or Murometz, also known as Ilya of Murom, is a bogatyr in byliny set during the time of Kievan Rus'. Bylina and Ilya Muromets are medieval legends.

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Ivan Sakharov

Ivan Petrovich Sakharov (Иван Петрович Сахаров, September 10, 1807, Tula, Russian Empire, — September 5, 1863, Valdai region, Tver Governorate, Russian Empire) was a Russian folklorist, ethnographer, archeologist and paleographer.

See Bylina and Ivan Sakharov

Kievan Rus'

Kievan Rus', also known as Kyivan Rus,.

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Kirsha Danilov

Kirsha Danilov (Russian: Кирша Данилов) was the supposed compiler of a collection of Russian heroic, religious and humorous folksongs that made its first appearance in print in 1804. Bylina and Kirsha Danilov are Russian folklore.

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Kyiv Pechersk Lavra

Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra or Kyievo-Pecherska Lavra (Києво-Печерська лавра; Киево-Печерская лавра, Kievo-Pecherskaya Lavra), also known as the Kyiv Monastery of the Caves, is a historic Eastern Orthodox Christian monastery which gave its name to one of the city districts where it is located in Kyiv.

See Bylina and Kyiv Pechersk Lavra

Lake Onega

Lake Onega (also known as Onego; Onezhskoe ozero,; Ääninen, Äänisjärvi; Livvi: Oniegujärvi; Änine, Änižjärv) is a lake in northwestern Russia, on the territory of the Republic of Karelia, Leningrad Oblast and Vologda Oblast.

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Leonid Maykov

Leonid Nikolaevich Maikov (Russian: Леонид Николаевич Майков; 1839–1900) was a prominent researcher in the history of Russian literature, a full member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, president of the Russian Bibliological Society, Privy Councillor; the son of the painter Nikolay Maykov, the younger brother of Apollon, Valerian and Vladimir Maykov.

See Bylina and Leonid Maykov

Mikula Selyaninovich

Mikula Selyaninovich (Микула Селянинович, Mikula the Villager's Son) is a Russian epic hero, a bogatyr - plowman, from the Novgorod Republic bylina cycle.

See Bylina and Mikula Selyaninovich

Nightingale the Robber

Nightingale the Robber or Solovei the Brigand (Solovey-Razboynik.), an epic robber, appears in traditional Russian byliny (folk poems). Bylina and Nightingale the Robber are Russian folklore.

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Nikita the Tanner

Nikita the Tanner, also Nikita Kozhemyaka or Mykyta Kozhumyaka (Никита Кожемяка, Мики́та Кожум'я́ка) is an Eastern European fairy tale set in Kyiv.

See Bylina and Nikita the Tanner

Oleg the Wise

Oleg (Ѡлегъ, Ольгъ; Helgi; died 912), also known as Oleg the Wise, was a Varangian prince of the Rus' who became prince of Kiev, and laid the foundations of the Kievan Rus' state.

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Olonets Governorate

Olonets Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire, extending from Lake Ladoga almost to the White Sea, bounded west by Finland, north and east by Arkhangelsk and Vologda, and south by Novgorod and Saint Petersburg.

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Onega, Russia

Onega (Оне́га) is a town in the northwest of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, situated at the mouth of the Onega River, a few kilometers from the shore of the Onega Bay of the White Sea.

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Oral literature

Oral literature, orature, or folk literature is a genre of literature that is spoken or sung in contrast to that which is written, though much oral literature has been transcribed.

See Bylina and Oral literature

Pavel Rybnikov

Pavel Nikolayevich Rybnikov (Па́вел Никола́евич Ры́бников, 6 December 1831, Moscow, Russian Empire, – 29 November 1885, Kalisz, Poland, then part of the Russian Empire) was a Russian ethnographer, folklorist and literary historian, credited with the discovery of the previously unknown culture of bylina and epos poetry of the Olonets and Arkhangelsk regions of North-European Russia.

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Perm, Russia

Perm (Пермь,; Перем; Перым), previously known as Yagoshikha (label; 1723–1781) and Molotov (label; 1940–1957), is the administrative centre of Perm Krai in the European part of Russia.

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Principality of Ryazan

The Principality of Ryazan (Рязанское княжество), later known as the Grand Principality of Ryazan (Великое княжество Рязанское), was a principality from 1129 to 1521.

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Prokofi Akinfiyevich Demidov

Prokofi Akinfiyevich Demidov (1710–1786) was a Russian industrialist and philanthropist; he also Russia's first millionaire.

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Richard James (scholar)

Richard James (1592 – December 1638) was an English scholar, poet, and the first librarian of the Cotton library.

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Russian North

The Russian North (Русский Север) is an ethnocultural region situated in the northwestern part of Russia.

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Sadko

Sadko (Садко) is the principal character in a Russian medieval epic bylina. Bylina and Sadko are medieval legends, Russian folklore and Russian legends.

See Bylina and Sadko

Siberia

Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.

See Bylina and Siberia

Slavic dragon

A Slavic dragon is any dragon in Slavic mythology, including the Russian zmei (or zmey; змей), Ukrainian zmiy, and its counterparts in other Slavic cultures: the Bulgarian zmey (змей), the Slovak drak and šarkan, Czech drak, Polish italic, the Serbo-Croatian zmaj (змај), the Macedonian zmej (змеј) and the Slovene zmaj.

See Bylina and Slavic dragon

Slavic Review

The Slavic Review is a major peer-reviewed academic journal publishing scholarly studies, book and film reviews, and review essays in all disciplines concerned with "Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, past and present".

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Svyatogor

Svyatogor is a mythical bogatyr (knight/hero) in byliny.

See Bylina and Svyatogor

The Tale of Igor's Campaign

The Tale of Igor's Campaign or The Tale of Ihor's Campaign (translit) is an anonymous epic poem written in the Old East Slavic language.

See Bylina and The Tale of Igor's Campaign

Vasily Buslayev

Vasily Buslayev is a Novgorod character of the Bogatyr epics.

See Bylina and Vasily Buslayev

Vladimir the Great

Vladimir I Sviatoslavich or Volodymyr I Sviatoslavych (Volodiměr Svętoslavič; Christian name: Basil; 15 July 1015), given the epithet "the Great", was Prince of Novgorod from 970 and Grand Prince of Kiev from 978 until his death in 1015. The Eastern Orthodox Church canonised him as Saint Vladimir.

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Vladimir-Suzdal

Vladimir-Suzdal (Владимирско-Су́здальская, Vladimirsko-Suzdal'skaya), formally known as the Principality of Vladimir-Suzdal or Grand Principality of Vladimir (1157–1331) (translit; Volodimeriae), also as Suzdalia or Vladimir-Suzdalian Rus', was one of the major principalities emerging from Kievan Rus' in the late 12th century, centered in Vladimir-on-Klyazma.

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Voivode

Voivode, also spelled voivod, voievod or voevod and also known as vaivode, voivoda, vojvoda or wojewoda, is a title denoting a military leader or warlord in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe in use since the Early Middle Ages.

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Volga Svyatoslavich

Volga Svyatoslavich (Вольга Святославич) or Volkh Vseslavyevich (ВолхВсеславьевич) is a Russian epic hero, a bogatyr, from the Novgorod Republic bylina cycle.

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Vsevolod Miller

Vsevolod Fyodorovich Miller (Всеволод Фёдорович Миллер) –) was a Russian philologist, folklorist, linguist, anthropologist, archaeologist, and academician of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1911). Vsevolod Miller graduated from the Moscow State University in 1870. In 1884, he became a professor at his alma mater.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bylina

Also known as Bylinas, Bylyna, Bylyny, Stariny, Былина.

Bylina, the Glossary

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See also

Epic poetry

Russian folklore

Russian poetry

References