Knights the Bogatyrs Italian Tapestry
Knights - The Bogatyrs, is an Italian jacquard wall tapestry inspired by the painting Bogatyrs (1898) by Russian artist Victor Vasnetsov. A Bogtyr is a stock character in medieval East Slavic legends (byliny), akin to a Western European knight-errant. Vasnetsov's painting represents three of the most famous bogatyrs, Dobrynya Nikitich, Ilya Muromets, and Alyosha Popovich,