Churilo Plyonkovich

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Illustration by Andrey Ryabushkin in Russian Epic Bogatyrs (1895)

Churilo or Churila Plyonkovich, also spelled Plenkovich (Russian: Чурило Плёнкович), is a hero appearing in Russian byliny (oral epic poems). He belongs to the Kievan cycle (or Galician cycle).[1][2][3] He is presented as the best dressed man in all of Russia, and he appears at the wedding of Dunay Ivanovich [ru] and Nastasya Korolevichna [ru].[4]

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