Ilya Muromets and Nightingale the Robber (2007).avi
"Heroic leap." Victor Vasnetsov. 1914.
E. P. Shitikov. "Ilya Muromets" 1981
Coloring book for children on the theme of Ilya Muromets
Illustrations. Kochergin Nikolay Mikhailovich
SLAVIC AND RUSSIAN MYTHOLOGY
ILYA MUROMETS
a mythologized image of the main hero-hero of the Russian epic epic.
Many plots associated with Ilya Muromets are connected, contaminated and formed into an epic cycle. He leads all Russian heroes and acts as the main one in the trinity of the most famous heroes - Ilya Muromets, Dobrynya Nikitich, Alyosha Popovich. It was he who accomplished the greatest number of feats, which gives him the right to represent all Russian heroism and speak on his behalf before Prince Vladimir the Red Sun. It emphasizes strength, courage, loyalty, reliability, sobriety, wisdom, experience, justice, constructiveness of many of his actions, and even a certain love of peace. He alone defeats all enemies; his exploits are a warning against raids on Kyiv. The main epithet of I.M. in the epics is “old”, “old” (depicted as a gray-bearded old man riding across a field on a white horse) emphasizes the combination of confident strength, moral experience, and worldly wisdom.
The life path of Ilya Muromets is worked out in the most detail in epics, even to the point of mythologizing death (in a number of versions, I.M., having found a treasure and giving it to Prince Vladimir, monasteries and churches, orphans, retires to the Kyiv caves in the “stone mountains” and there “petrifies ", like other heroes). In his ascetic life (at the heroic outpost, in open fields and in dark forests on the way to Kyiv, in Kyiv itself or Chernigov, on the Holy Mountains), I.M. acts either alone or in community with other heroes.
Family ties are pushed aside, although I.M.’s parents (Ivan Timofeevich and Efrosinya Yakovlevna) and even his wife (Baba Zlatygorka) are occasionally mentioned; the only exceptions are the children of I.M. - son (Sokolnik, Sokolnichek, Podsokolnichek) or daughter (polyanitsa), with whom a special plot is associated - a fight between a father and his son (or daughter), acting as a hero-“boaster” unknown to the father (cf. . Iranian Rustam, etc.); during the duel, I.M. overcomes his son (or daughter) and is about to kill him, but at the last moment recognition occurs; the heroes disperse, but soon the son (or daughter) returns in order to take revenge on his father for his mother; victory is on the side of I.M., who kills the enemy.
The “pre-bogatyr” period of the life of Ilya Muromets is narrated by epics dedicated to his healing and two-stage acquisition of strength. Born in the city of Murom, in the village of Karacharovo (according to the most textbook version), in a peasant family, Ilya Muromets was born “without arms, without legs,” and therefore he sat on the stove for thirty years. The illness was miraculously cured. In the absence of the parents, “two crossing cripples” (cripples, wretched) come and ask I.M. to open the gate; he refers to his illness, but when he was asked a second time, “Ilya showed up on his frisky legs” and let the Kalik into the house; they give him a “chara drink of honey” or ask him to bring spring water and drink it; the consequence was that “his heroic heart flared up... and he heard a great strength within himself.” Kaliki predict heroic deeds for I.M. and that death is “not written in battle” for him, however, they warn him against fighting with Svyatogor, Samson the hero, with the Mikulov family (Mikul Selyaninogich) and with Volga Seslavich (Volkh ). After Kalik leaves, I.M. goes to his father’s field, drives the cattle out of it, and fences the field. He goes on horseback to Kyiv, to the court of Prince Vladimir. In an open field or on the Holy Mountains he meets Svyatogor; there is a mutual demonstration of strength, and it turns out that Svyatogor is stronger.
Both heroes become cross brothers, travel around the Holy Mountains, stop at Svyatogor, where his wife unsuccessfully tries to seduce Ilya Muromets. Dying, Svyatogor transfers his power to I.M., but I.M. refuses the superpower offered to him, which could result in death for him. Having received this “second” power, I.M. becomes a true hero. His first feat was accomplished during his first trip to Kyiv, when I.M. defeats the Nightingale the Robber.
Neither the snake shield nor the bestial roar frightened I.M., with a red-hot arrow he hits the Nightingale in the right eye, ties him to the saddle bow and takes him to Kyiv. The requests of Nightingale’s wife to let her husband go remain in vain. Surprised that all the Nightingales were “in one person,” and hearing that the Nightingale was marrying his children to each other so that “the Nightingale family would not be transferred,” Ilya “cut off all the Nightingale’s children.” On the way to Kyiv, he performs other feats - clears Chernigov from the enemy “great powerhouse”, builds bridges across the Smorodina River. At the court of Prince Vladimir, I.M. shows the Nightingale, making him hiss like a snake and roar like an animal. After this, he kills Nightingale for his crimes. Following this first heroic feat, others follow. In Kyiv (and sometimes in Constantinople) the filthy Idol appears and terrifies Prince Vladimir, demanding from him “a fighter and an adversary.” Ilya Muromets goes to battle, but makes a miscalculation - he does not take a damask club with him, but takes a saber, which he cannot kill Idolishche with (the very motive of I.M.’s mistake before an important test is quite characteristic). In the duel, I.M. kills Idolishche with a “hat of Greek land.”
In the version “Ilya Murovich and the Monster” the action takes place in Constantinople, where “the damned monster came” and bound Tsar Kostyantin Ataulievich and Princess Opraxya. Having learned about this, I.M. hurries from Kyiv to help and defeats the monster in single combat. A special cycle of epics is devoted to the theme of I.M.’s struggle with the Tatars. Kalin the Tsar, from the horde of the Golden Land, approached Kyiv “with his filthy strength” when there were no heroes there; he sends a Tatar with “cursive letters” to Prince Vladimir; he demands that the prince surrender Kievgrad without a fight. I.M., who suddenly arrived, finds out about the trouble and offers to give Kalin the Tsar three misas - gold, silver and pearls. I.M., together with the prince, disguised as a cook, come with gifts to Tsar Kalin; I.M. demands that the Tatars move away from Kyiv, Tsar Kalin orders I.M. to be tied up and “spits in Ilya’s clear eyes.”
He frees himself from the ropes, grabs the Tatar by the legs “and begins to wave the Tatar: wherever he waves, there are streets, and wherever he turns, there are alleys.” He “hit Kalina on a flammable stone and smashed it into crumbs.” Sometimes instead of Kalin the Tsar in this plot, Batu Batyevich or Kudrevanko, Badan, Kovshey, Skurla appear. Another cycle of epics is about I.M.’s meeting during his long trips (to “Rich India”, to “Cursed Karela”) with robbers dividing the looted treasury and attempting to kill I.M. Ilya kills “all the robbers, forty thousand plantains” . The cycle about trips (“three trips” is the traditional epic number) of I.M. also includes epics about I.M. with Dobrynya Nikitich on the Falcon-ship, ending with Ilya Muromets killing the “Turkish lord” Saltan Saltanovich with an arrow. However, I.M. is not always on the same page as Dobrynya Nikitich.
There is a well-known story about their fight between themselves: having emerged victorious, Dobrynya sat “on the white chest” of I.M. and before killing him, asked his name. Having learned that it is I.M., he kisses him, asks for forgiveness and exchanges crosses with him. In conclusion, the crusading brothers visited Dobrynya’s mother and went to Kyiv to see Prince Vladimir. The mythological element greatly recedes into the background in those epics of late origin about Ilya Muromets, where a strongly “socialized” image of a hero is formed who no longer performs feats, but clearly reveals his connection with the lower classes of the city (“tavern heads”) and antagonism towards Prince Vladimir. In the plot of I.M.’s quarrel with Vladimir, because the prince forgot to invite him to his place “for a feast of honors,” he shot “at large churches,” “at wonderful crosses,” “at gilded domes,” which were demolished to the Tsar's Tavern and drunk together with the Tsar's Tavern Goli.
Finally, Prince Vladimir notices the absence of Ilya Muromets at the feast and sends Dobrynya to fetch him. I.M. comes only because the “crusader brother” Dobrynya called him, otherwise he would have killed the prince and princess with a bow shot at Gridnya. In another version, I.M., who was imprisoned in a “deep cellar” due to the slander of the kissers, is helped by Princess Apraksin, secretly feeding and watering him for forty days. When, having learned about I.M.’s absence, Tsar Kalin approached Kyiv and demanded to surrender the city, Apraksin confesses to his husband of deception, he releases I.M. to freedom and asks for help. I.M. says that he is ready to serve “for the Christian faith”, “for the Russian land”, “for the capital Kyiv-grad”, “for widows, for orphans, for poor people, for Apraksin)”, but not “for a dog "Prince Vladimir." After this, I.M. beats the Tatars, puts Tsar Kalin to death, and forces the Tatars to pay tribute.
Bypassed during the general gifting due to the intrigues of the boyars trying to slander him before Prince Vladimir, he behaves impudently and even violently. In epics of a more traditional type, I.M., on the contrary, is wise, patient, and conciliatory (he reconciles Dobrynya and Danube who had quarreled, acts as a reconciliator in some versions of the epic about Alyosha Popovich and the Zbrodovich sister, in the epic about Duke Stepanovich). In the epics about Sukhman and Danil Lovchanin, the justice of I.M. is emphasized: without fear of consequences, he warns Prince Vladimir against wrong actions.
The most obvious “historical” localization of I.M. connects it with northeastern Russia (Murom, the village of Karacharovo), but for the era of the 11th-12th centuries, when, apparently, the core of the plot about I.M. was formed and it was tied to Kyiv and the circle of heroes of Prince Vladimir are characterized by the specificity of the Kiev-Chernigov-Bryansk topographical indications: Kiev, Chernigov, Bryansk forests, Moroviysk or Morovsk, Karachaevo, Karachev (a), the Smorodinnaya River not far from Karachev, on the banks of which is the ancient village of Devyatidubye ( cf. nine oak trees on which the Thief Nightingale was located), cf. there Solovyov transportation, etc. The popularity of the image of I.M. in Belarusian fairy tales, which are very archaic, also makes it probable that I.M. was linked to this area earlier.
The Belarusian fairy tale about Ilyushka is indicative, in which a number of archaic features of the myth about the snake and snake fighting are obvious. An old man and an old woman (option: a farrier and a farrier, cf. the connection of a blacksmith with a snake and snake fighting) give birth to a powerful, but “legless” son (cf. leglessness as a characteristic feature of a snake). Having received a miraculous cure, he, like chthonic heroes such as Goryn, Dubyn and Usyp, uproots oak trees and throws them into the river (Danube, variant: Desna); the river, dammed for seven miles, overflows its banks and threatens to flood the whole world (cf. the motif of the Dnieper being dammed with rapids in connection with the snake-fighting plot).
Ilyushka turns to the Lord with a request to give him a pillar to the sky so that he can turn the earth “upside down” (cf. a similar motive in connection with Svyatogor, as well as an epic plot uniting Svyatogor and Ilya of Murom as brothers). But, having gotten rid of chthonic traits, the hero becomes a snake fighter. His blacksmith father makes a mace for him, and then a duel begins between Ilyushka and the Serpent, who hides his prey behind a stone wall.
Ilyushka defeats the Serpent and marries the king’s daughter (in another version, while fighting with the Serpent, he turns into stone; cf. the motif of Perun’s stones, arrows, like the transformed children of the Thunderer). After death, the hero Ilyushka becomes Saint Ilya, who “manages” the thunder cloud. In this case, the image of the hero Ilyushka is contaminated with Ilya the Prophet as a version of the Thunderer, pursuing, in particular, the Serpent, the unclean, etc. (the motif is well known in Belarusian mythological folklore - see Perun - and in a number of later sources, cf. “The Legend of the Construction of the City of Yaroslavl”, where Elijah the Prophet pursues a fierce beast, the messenger of Veles).
This plot, as well as Ilya’s further connections with Yegor-Yuri, Saint George (cf. also the motifs of Ilya the wet and Ilya the dry, his connections with Maria, Morena, Fiery Maria, etc.), allows us to consider the image of I.M. as one of the continuations of the image of the Thunderer. At the same time, the peasant origin of I.M., his clearing of land for a field, his special connection with the Mother - the raw earth, the liberation of wealth from the power of the “chthonic” enemy brings this image closer to Saint Elijah as the patron saint of fertility (cf. “Saint Elijah by walks between borders... Walks along borders, and gives birth").
The prototype of the epic hero is considered to be the warrior and monk Elijah, the miracle worker of Murom, who lived in the 12th century during the reign of Vladimir Monomakh. Ilya’s military exploits are shrouded in legends, and at the end of his life he became a monk and rested in the Kiev Pechersk Lavra.
Biography
Victor Vasnetsov. Bogatyrsky leap. 1914. House-museum of V.M. Vasnetsova
Konstantin Vasiliev. Ilya Muromets is in a quarrel with Prince Vladimir. 1974
Evgeny Shitikov. Ilya Muromets. Engraving. 1981
Historians are still arguing about who was the prototype of the epic hero. According to legend, he became the strongman Chobitko, who won many military victories. So, for example, one day he killed enemies with his boot for lack of a better weapon - for which he received the popular nickname “Chobotok”, that is, “Boot”.
After another serious wound, the hero took monastic vows at the Theodosius Monastery, becoming a monk, and was subsequently canonized. It is believed that Ilya died during the capture of Kyiv by Prince Rurik Rostislavich, when the Polovtsian troops defeated the Lavra.
In 1988, a special commission of the Ministry of Health carried out an examination of the saint’s relics. Researchers found out that the monk suffered from a spinal disease, and his body was covered with traces of numerous wounds. Death is believed to have occurred from a blow from a spear or sword to the chest, through the left arm covering it.
This is exactly how the rector of St. Basil's Cathedral, Father John Lukyanov, describes Muromets in 1701 - with one pierced palm and the other folded for the sign of the cross. In his Journey to the Holy Land he notes: “It is deeply symbolic that his left hand testifies to the service of a warrior, and his right hand testifies to the feat of prayer.”.
Epic biography
Georgy Yudin. Illustration for the epic “The Illness and Healing of Ilya Muromets.” Year unknown
Mikhail Shemarov. Ilya Muromets and the Kaliki passers-by. Illustration for a collection of epics about Ilya Muromets retold by Vasily Starostin. Publishing house "Soviet Russia". 1967
Georgy Yudin. Illustration for the epic “Ilya Muromets and the Nightingale the Robber.” Year unknown
In the epics, a series of heroic events awaited Ilya after his 30th birthday, and before that time he suffered: he “could not control” either his arms or his legs. There is a hypothesis that this was a rare hormonal disease, which also provoked the physical dimensions of the hero. One day, as usual, he was sitting at home on the stove when strangers knocked on his gate and asked him to let them in. Ilya got up, opened the doors - and only then realized that he was healed. From that moment on, a life full of trials began: a meeting with the most ancient Russian hero - the giant Svyatogor, a trip to the “immovable stone” for weapons and armor, and feats for the good of his native land.
Even European legends mention Muromets. For example, in the German epic poems of the 13th century he is represented as the knight Ilya the Russian - a princely family and unprecedented power. Ilian von Riuzen helps the ruler of Garda get a bride and yearns for his homeland, for his wife and children who remained in Rus'.
“Great and diverse is the venerable host of knights gathered around the Grand Duke of Kyiv Vladimir, all of them express many aspects of the Russian spirit. But more powerful than all of them is the chosen one of the Russian people, Ilya Muromets...”
Historian and linguist Konstantin Aksakov
Ilya Muromets in literature
Vladimir Pertsov. Ilya Muromets in Kalich clothes speaks with Prince Vladimir. Illustration for the collection “Epics: a book for extracurricular reading, grades 5-7.” Publishing house "Prosveshcheniye". 1985
Lyubov Lazareva. Illustration for the epic “Ilya Muromets and the Nightingale the Robber.” 2010
Yuri Ivanov. Illustration for Alexei Tolstoy’s collection “Kurgan: Ballads and Epics.” Publishing house "Children's Literature". 1982
The famous Russian philologist, researcher of the Russian epic Sergei Azbelev counted fifteen heroic stories associated with the hero Ilya Muromets. Not only storytellers turned to his image - for example, the peasant hero appeared as a gallant knight in the unfinished poem “Ilya Muromets” by Nikolai Karamzin. “He is like a tender myrtle: / thin, straight and majestic in appearance”, - said the famous historian “in the style of antiquity.”
Alexei Tolstoy wrote the ballad “Ilya Muromets” about the epic hero, in which the hero appears already at a respectable age: “Under armor with a simple set, / Chewing a piece of bread, / On a hot afternoon, he rides with a boron / Grandfather Ilya”, and Vasily Shukshin made the epic hero a participant in an imaginary dispute between classical literary heroes in a modern library in the story “Until the Third Roosters”.
Image in cinema
Poster for the feature film “Ilya Muromets” by Alexander Ptushko (1956)
Still from Alexander Ptushko’s feature film “Ilya Muromets” (1956)
Based on the epics, in 1956 the first wide-screen feature film in the Soviet Union, “Ilya Muromets,” was shot with Boris Andreev in the title role. Director Alexander Ptushko was awarded an honorary diploma at the Edinburgh International Film Festival for this work two years later.
Ancient Kyiv had to be recreated especially for filming on the shore of the Simferopol reservoir. The epic picture required the participation of more than one hundred thousand military personnel and eleven thousand horses. The costumes for the heroes were made based on the painting “Bogatyrs” by Viktor Vasnetsov.
The image of Ilya Muromets was used in the films “That Scoundrel Sidorov”, “Adventures in the Thirtieth Kingdom”, “Real Fairy Tale”. In the 70s of the twentieth century and in 2007, the epic hero became the hero of animated films.
In the paintings of Russian artists
Victor Vasnetsov. Bogatyrs. 1881-1898. Tretyakov Gallery
Nicholas Roerich. Ilya Muromets. 1910. Timing
Victor Vasnetsov. Knight at a crossroads. 1882. Timing
Ilya Muromets has been depicted more than once by both artists and illustrators: Nicholas Roerich and Vasily Vereshchagin, Konstantin Vasiliev and Nikolai Kochergin. The main thing in all images is the remarkable strength of the Russian hero. Viktor Vasnetsov most often turned to the epic plot.
Ilya in the painting “Bogatyrs” is a collective image. While working on the canvas, the prototypes were either Ivan Petrov, a peasant from the Vladimir province, or an Abramtsevo blacksmith, or a cab driver, whom the artist accidentally met in Moscow and persuaded to pose.
Vasnetsov’s painting “The Knight at the Crossroads” appeared under the influence of the epic “Ilya Muromets and the Robbers”; the artist worked on the image for ten years and painted two canvases: in 1877 and in 1882. Initially, the hero was turned to face the viewer, in the final version we see only the slumped shoulders and lowered head of the hero, looking at the stone in thought. The artist himself emphasized that the text of the inscription was taken from epic poetry.
Ilya Muromets in bronze
Monument to Ilya Muromets. Vladivostok. Sculptor Konstantin Zinich. 2012
Sculptural composition “Ilya Muromets at the crossroads.” Ekaterinburg. Sculptor Vladimir Bondarev. 2011
Monument to Ilya Muromets. Murom, Vladimir region. Sculptor Vyacheslav Klykov. 1999
Although centuries have passed since the events described by the folk epic, the image of the epic hero does not lose its relevance. In 1999, a monument to Ilya Muromets was erected on the banks of the Oka River in the city of Murom. The famous sculptor Vyacheslav Klykov, the author of the monument to Marshal Zhukov on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow, combined the image of a hero and a monk in bronze. Under the heroic chain mail there is a monastic robe, in one hand there is a sword, and in the other there is an Orthodox cross. There are also monuments to Ilya Muromets in Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg, and Izhevsk.
First World War.
The armored train "Ilya Muromets" was donated to the front at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War by the railway workers of the Murom junction. During the entire war, the legendary train did not receive a single serious damage, went through the battle route from Murom to Frankfurt-on-Oder and was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky. In 1971, the armored train became a military monument; it was installed in Murom. An icebreaker named after the hero is being completed at the Admiralty shipyards of St. Petersburg, and after completion of the work, at the end of 2017, the Ilya Muromets will enter service.
Lovers of artistic painting, as well as children who were asked to draw a hero in pencil during a drawing lesson, do not find it so easy to depict a fictional painting. In most cases, problems arise with drawing images of Russian heroes, their horses and weapons, and less often - the surrounding nature and objects in the background. That is why in today’s article we decided to make the task easier for our readers by demonstrating several step-by-step lessons in the photo. Below you can see the drawing of “Three Heroes”, “Russian Hero” and even characters from famous cartoons: Dobrynya Nikitich, Alyosha Popovich and Ilya Muromets.
How to draw a picture of a hero with a pencil? Useful tips
Presentation of the painting
Before you start drawing one or more heroes, you need to think through the picture in advance. To do this, just look at the finished works of artists, and then visually imagine your concept in your mind, closing your eyes for one or two minutes. Then the work plan will become simple and clear.
Even when sketching characters, artists advise beginners to make their own adjustments, thereby making the picture unique and inimitable. Changes can be made to the surrounding landscape, the color of the horse, the proportionality of the hero, and even his action.
Drawing tools
In order not to run around the apartment looking for a simple pencil or eraser, before taking your workplace, you need to prepare everything in advance. A simple pencil, an eraser, several white A4 sheets, colored pencils (felt-tip pens or paints) are the basis for creating any drawing.
Color combination
When the pencil drawing of the hero is ready, little remains to be done. - it’s not a tricky thing! However, there are some nuances here too. The color palette should be in harmony with each other. Therefore, it is recommended to use bright colors for painting heroes, and muted colors, close to natural ones, for the surrounding nature.
“Three Bogatyrs” based on the painting by V. M. Vasnetsov
Drawing “Three Bogatyrs” in pencil based on the image of the famous painting “Bogatyrs” written by V. M. Vasnetsov is one of the most difficult works known in the school curriculum. In order to somehow convey your view of the masterpiece exhibited in the Tretyakov Gallery, you need to try hard, devoting a lot of diligence, patience and time to sketching, drawing and coloring. After all, it is this picture that shows people what the defenders of the Russian people looked like a long time ago. Strong men on three faithful horses, dressed in heavy armor and armed with a sword, spear and bow and arrows, stand on Russian land, protecting it from the enemy onslaught.
One can discuss the actions of heroes ad infinitum. After all, every person’s imagination has no limits. However, today's article is devoted to writing pictures about heroes, and not to writing about literature. Therefore, we will not think out the “action” for you, but rather we will tell you in more detail about each hero.
Dobrynya Nikitich
On the left side of the picture is the famous Russian hero Dobrynya Nikitich. Both adults and children know about it. After all, the legends about his heroic strength and unshakable courage make up many epic stories. So in V. M. Vasnetsov’s painting “Bogatyrs”, Dobrynya is depicted as courageous, strong and “seasoned”. A steel sword is put forward in its scabbard to protect the native land, and armor is used as protection. Another advantage of the hero is his fast and strong horse.
Ilya Muromets
In the center of the picture, between the two heroes, is the mighty and invincible Ilya Muromets. He peers forward, holding his hand just above the bridge of his nose. His strength is immense, and his physique surpasses the two heroes standing next to him. If you believe the legend, Ilya Muromets was invincible, good-natured and, most importantly, devoted to his people.
Alyosha Popovich
The youngest of the three heroes was Alyosha Popovich. He got a place on the right side of the picture. Although a small young man at first glance, he is very brave, courageous and dexterous; I can prove that it is not only by force that one can defeat a sworn enemy.
Drawing “Three Heroes” in pencil, step-by-step photo lesson:
Pencil drawing of a Russian hero
Drawing a hero with a simple pencil on a landscape sheet is more difficult than it seems at first glance. However, you can make the task easier by using step-by-step drawing. By repeating step-by-step actions, as in the photo below, you can get a very interesting drawing. But bright colors will help to add a unique touch to it.
Step-by-step photo instructions:
Illustration (drawing) for the fairy tale “The Dead Princess and the Seven Knights” based on Pushkin’s fairy tale
If a child at school was assigned a drawing (illustration) on the topic “The Dead (Sleeping) Princess and the Seven Knights,” it is not at all necessary to depict all the characters from A.S. Pushkin’s fairy tale. You can simply draw a memorable plot in which one or more characters are present. The photo below shows examples of how you can draw a drawing of a hero and a princess in pencil, as well as all the heroes, a witch and an apple.
Drawing of a hero in pencil, photo ideas + master class:
Superheroes have existed since the time of Tsar Pea, though without the ability to fly or work in Photoshop, but packs of bad people and radishes. There is a known secret group of louts codenamed Bogatyrs, consisting of three mountains of muscles that punish infidels and sinners. In this lesson we will learn how to draw Ilya Muromets - one of the three heroes.
Ilya Muromets is the hero of the epic saga. He sleeps on the stove all the time or eats, while the proportion of muscles in the body exceeds 90% of the mass. He looks like a huge boulder with a head that is used for rare dialogues and breaking through brick walls. He secretly uses steroids, carefully hiding it behind his kind and decent character.
The main enemy is Nightingale the Robber. By local standards, he is a petty thief from the family of Genghis Khan, waiting in the forests for caravans with drinkers and girls. He somehow annoyed Ilya, becoming enemy number one and now avoids meeting him in every possible way. He harms people purely out of principle, realizing his poverty, and in the end, no matter what happens, he gets hit on the skull with a huge sledgehammer.
The advantage of being a hero:
- A dull inner world and an unpleasant face can always be compensated for by bodybuilding and steroids, but this does not guarantee success with women, at work, and in all other areas where the formal presence of the brain is needed.
- Make a mess of enemies with impunity, without bothering to review human rights and the criminal code. If you are a hero, feel like you are in a medieval GTA, find yourself a convenient two-handed ax and give rays of light to those in need. Possible losses and casualties among civilians are compensated through the royal treasury.
- Working in the style of a hired freelance killer, you can sleep around the clock and wait for the work itself to fall into the territory with all the equipment and hopes for a bright future.
Let's start drawing.
How to draw Ilya Muromets with a pencil step by step
Step one. Draw three geometric shapes in the center of the sheet with large circles inside. 
Step two. Now in each circle we draw the bodies of three horses, and let three heroes sit astride them. 
Step three. We carefully draw every small detail of the appearance of animals and people, add combat paraphernalia in the form of weapons, armor and headdresses, and draw lush manes and tails for horses. 
Step four. We shade all the characters, thereby making them more alive, and clean the drawing with an eraser. 
I recommend that you review more of these lessons.
