Alyosha Popovich
Slavic · mortal · bylina medieval · Recorded classification
Domains
- heroism and war
Powers
- defeat his enemies by cunning and trickery
- slay Tugarin Zmeyevich
Relations
- companion: Ilya MurometsFellow bogatyr of the Kievan court of Vladimir; the byliny pair the three (Ilya, Dobrynya, Alyosha) as sworn brothers-in-arms at the heroic outpost.Bailey & Ivanova, An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics (1999) (secondary)
- companion: Dobrynya NikitichFellow bogatyr of the Vladimir circle and the third member of the sworn bogatyr trinity with Ilya Muromets and Dobrynya.Bailey & Ivanova, An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics (1999) (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Bylina cycle — Kirsha Danilov, Drevnie rossiiskie stikhotvoreniia (1804) (secondary); Bailey & Ivanova, An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics (1999) (secondary); Nikon Chronicle — the historical Alexander Popovich of Rostov (partial historical anchor) (secondary)