Nightingale the Robber
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Nightingale the Robber or Solovei the Brigand (Russian: Соловей-Разбойник, Solovey-Razboynik), also known as Solovey Odikhmantievich (Соловей Одихмантьевич), was a Russian epic robber from bylinas poetry. He lived in a forest near Bryansk, sat in a tree by the road to Kiev and stunned strangers with his powerful whistle. Legendarily defeated by Ilya Muromets, who survived even though Razboynik levelled half of the surrounding forest.
[edit] Depictions
- Vladimir Toropchin's animated feature, Ilya Muromets and Nightingale the Robber, to be released on July 7, 2007. [1]
[edit] External links
- Recording of this bylina.
- Ilya Muromets and Nightingale the Robber, as included by A. H. Wratislaw in Sixty Folk-Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources
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