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Alyosha Popovich Alyosha Popovich (), alongside Dobrynya Nikitich and Ilya Muromets, is a bogatyr (i.e., medieval Russian knights-errant) The three of them are represented together at Vasnetsov's famous painting Bogatyrs. In Byliny (oral stories) he is described as a crafty priest's son who wins by tricking and outsmarting his foes. He defeated the dragon Tugarin Zmeevich by trickery. In later versions the dragon was transformed into the figure of a Mongol Khan.
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