A bogatyr (богатырь; Old East Slavic богатырь, богатир; from baghatur, a historical Turco-Mongol honorific) or vityaz (витязь) is a stock character in medieval East Slavic legends (byliny), akin to a Western European knight-errant. ==Etymology== Russian word богатырь (bogatýr’) is derived from a Turkic langu... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogatyr
one of a group of heroes of the Russian folk epics known as byliny. The duty of the bogatyrs was to protect the Russian land against foreign ... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/85