Epic "Ilya Muromets and the Nightingale the Robber"
Genre: epic
The main characters of the epic "Ilya Muromets and the Nightingale the Robber" and their characteristics
- Ilya Muromets. Russian hero. Powerful, brave, decisive. Defender of the Russian land, protector of widows and orphans, honest and fearless.
- Nightingale the Robber. Murderer and murderer, dishonest, evil, insidious, cunning.
- Prince Vladimir. Important, swaggering, stupid.
- Ilya is traveling from Karacharovo
- Battle of Chernigov
- Ilya as voivode
- A story about the Nightingale the Robber
- Ilya's decision
- Battle with the Nightingale the Robber
- Nightingale's Daughters
- Nightingale's sons-in-law
- Ilya Muromets in Kyiv
- The prince's mistrust
- The nightingale whistles
- Death of the Nightingale the Robber
- Ilya Muromets went to Kyiv and defeated enemies near Chernigov
- The people of Chernigov called him to be governor, but Ilya refused, and went straight to Kyiv
- Ilya met the Nightingale the Robber and knocked him off an oak tree with an arrow
- Nightingale’s daughters wanted to recapture the robber, but Nightingale ordered them to retreat
- Ilya brought Solovy to Kyiv, but Prince Vladimir does not believe him
- The Nightingale whistles in Kyiv, everyone gets scared, and Ilya blows off the Nightingale’s head with his saber.
It is not for the sake of glory that heroes perform feats, but for the sake of ordinary people, for the sake of their homeland.
What does the epic "Ilya Muromets and the Nightingale the Robber" teach?
This epic teaches one to love the Motherland, teaches one to defend it from enemies, teaches one to stand up for the weak and offended. Teaches you to be fair, brave, honest.
Review of the epic "Ilya Muromets and the Nightingale the Robber"
This is a very interesting epic in which we meet Ilya Muromets, the greatest Russian hero. This is a real defender of the Russian land. I really like Ilya Muromets, because he is reliable, he is calm, he is confident and invincible.
Proverbs for the epic "Ilya Muromets and the Nightingale the Robber"
Whoever comes to us with a sword will die by the sword.
The hero is not famous by birth, but by his feat.
Take care of your native land like your beloved mother.
Summary, brief retelling epics "Ilya Muromets and the Nightingale the Robber"
From the village of Karacharova sets off good fellow Ilya Muromets. He meets Matins already in Murom, and plans to be in Kyiv by lunchtime.
But Ilya Muromets drove up to Chernigov and saw the black force. Ilya Muromets defeated all the black forces and entered Chernigov.
Ilya was joyfully greeted in Chernigov and invited to become a governor. But Ilya refused and asked to show the way straight to Kyiv.
The Chernigov residents answer him that the straight road has been overgrown for a long time, no one drives along it, because near the Smorodina River the Nightingale the Robber sits on an oak tree and whistles so that the trees bend to the ground, and people are dead are lying.
Ilya was not afraid, he drove straight along the road. He approaches the Currant River, the Nightingale saw him, and how he whistled. The heroic horse stumbles.
Ilya whipped the horse and took out the bow. He shot a red-hot arrow and knocked out Nightingale’s right eye. He fastened the Nightingale to the stirrup and took him to Kyiv.
Ilya drove past the nest of the Nightingale the Robber, and there his three daughters were sitting, looking at the road. The elders say that Nightingale is coming, carrying a peasant peasant. And the younger one says that on the contrary, a country man is riding, carrying the Nightingale in the stirrup.
Here Nightingale’s daughters called their husbands and told them to take the spears and kill the peasant peasant. The husbands grabbed the spears and ran to Ilya Muromets. Yes, the Nightingale shouts to them from the stirrup so that they throw down the spears and invite the man to visit him for dinner. But Ilya does not listen to the promises, he continues on.
Ilya Muromets arrived in Kyiv, entered the white stone chambers, bowed to all sides, especially to Prince Vladimir.
Vladimir asks who he is and where he is from. Ilya answers that he is from the village of Karacharova, near Murom, that he was traveling through Chernigov on a straight road.
Prince Vladimir does not believe him, he says that there is immeasurable black power near Chernigov, and the Nightingale the Robber sits near the Smorodina River.
Ilya answers that the Nightingale is fastened to his stirrup, and his eye is knocked out. Vladimir runs out into the yard to look at Nightingale and demands that he whistle like a nightingale.
The Nightingale doesn’t want to whistle, he replies that Ilya knocked him down, and he should give orders.
Ilya ordered Nightingale to whistle. The Nightingale asks you to drink wine. I drank a cup of half a bucket and it whistled. The poppies tilt, the windows shatter, Prince Vladimir wraps himself in a fur coat.
Ilya quickly took Solovy to the field and cut off his head. The Nightingale will no longer whistle and destroy Russian people.
Drawings and illustrations for the epic "Ilya Muromets and the Nightingale the Robber"
Ilya Muromets is one of the three most famous Russian epic heroes, defender of the Motherland and all Russian people. There is a legend that Ilya Muromets is not a fictional epic character, but a real person. And everything really happened, as the epic tells: Ilya sat on the stove for thirty years and three years, and then the elders passing through the village treated him with some spoken water, and the hero accomplished his first feat - he overcame his fear and uncertainty.
Then Ilya fulfilled his duty to his parents - he began to help them in everything in their difficult peasant work. So Ilya would have remained an unknown village strongman if he had not understood that his special strength should serve people on a completely different level than simply doing hard work. A hero would not be a hero if he did not perform feats, fighting evil in any of its incarnations.
The hero’s first feat of arms, not for the sake of glory and wealth, but to help the besieged in hometown Chernigov, became a victory over the enemy army. Refusing the offered position of city governor, Ilya continued his journey towards dangers and battles.
The next enemy is the Nightingale the Robber, the absolute embodiment of evil, a fabulous allegory of the raids of the steppe nomads of the Polovtsians, Pechenegs and Khazars, who tormented Rus' in the ninth and tenth centuries. His whistle “like a nightingale” and his cry “like an animal,” from which “the forest bends to the ground and people fall dead,” are identified with the many years of battles of the Russians for their land.
But the Russian hero withstood the monster, captured him and took him to the capital Kyiv for the princely trial. Heroes do not tend to commit lynching if the enemy has fallen to the ground and begs for mercy.
But the hero remains independent and independent, even if those in power try to humiliate him and laugh at the hero. This is what happened at the princely feast with the boyars, who did not believe Ilya Muromets that he defeated the Nightingale the Robber, who had brought fear and terror to the entire district. By forcing the Nightingale to demonstrate his whistle, Ilya put the mockers to shame and earned the great national, and with it the princely, honor of a liberator from an evil scourge.
Selfless heroism, desire to help one's people and native land, forces Ilya Muromets to refuse all the rewards offered by the prince and ask for himself only a place in the princely squad to serve “for the sake of Mother Rus',” to be her intercessors and a threat to “evil enemies.” This well characterizes the hero’s choice of a road that prophesied death. Fearlessly turning his horse towards mortal danger, the Russian knight set off “to perform military service, to fight with enemies for righteous Rus' and for the Russian people”
The main character of the epic “Ilya Muromets and the Nightingale the Robber” is a Russian hero from the city of Murom, Ilya. Once he went to the city of Kyiv, but near the city of Chernigov he came across dark forces that neither a bird nor an animal could slip past them, and people on foot and on horseback were not able to pass these forces. And Ilya Muromets, with his heroic strength and his brave spear, scattered them and made his way to Chernigov.
Residents of the city began to call him as a governor, but he refused and asked to be shown a short way to Kyiv. To this, the residents replied that the short road to Kyiv had long been overgrown with grass, because no one could walk or drive along it. And the Nightingale the Robber, who sits near a birch tree by the Smorodina River and with his terrible whistle makes the grass and trees bend to the ground, and people fall dead from the whistle, interferes with the travelers.
But Ilya Muromets was not afraid of Nightingale the Robber and went straight ahead. He reached the Smorodina River, then the Nightingale the Robber saw him and whistled terribly. Ilya Muromets, although he had a heroic horse, began to stumble because of this whistle. Then the hero took his bow, pulled the string and shot an arrow at the robber. Yes, an arrow knocked out his right eye. After which Ilya pulled the robber from the tree, fastened it to the stirrup and drove on.
He reached Kyiv and arrived at the court of Prince Vladimir. He began to ask Ilya Muromets who he was and where he came from and what route he took to get to Kyiv. When Ilya said that he was traveling the straight road, through Chernigov, Prince Vladimir did not believe him. Chernigov has dark powers, and Nightingale the Robber sits and doesn’t let anyone in. To this the hero replied that the robber was tied to his saddle, with his eye knocked out.
Prince Vladimir rushed into the courtyard, saw the Nightingale the Robber, and ordered him to whistle in a terrible way. But he didn’t listen to the prince, he said to call Ilya Muromets. Ilya Muromets came and ordered the robber to whistle. He whistled at full strength, so much so that the windows in the towers were broken, and many people fell dead. Ilya Muromets got angry, he took Nightingale the Robber out of the city and cut off his head.
That's how it is summary epics.
The main meaning of the epic “Ilya Muromets and the Nightingale the Robber” is that there is nothing insurmountable for Russian heroes. From any dark force they can handle it. The epic teaches us not to look for easy detours in life, but to follow the straight road, even if it is difficult. Ilya Muromets did just that. He was not afraid of Nightingale the Robber and went to Kyiv along a straight road, and he captured the robber along the way and brought him to Kyiv to show him to Prince Vladimir.
I liked it in the epic main character, Ilya Muromets. This Russian hero has not only enormous physical strength, but also moral strength, the strength of the Russian spirit, which helped him cope with both the dark forces and the Nightingale the Robber.
What proverbs fit the epic “Ilya Muromets and Nightingale the Robber”?
The Russian land is famous for its heroes.
Not the hero who lifts weights, but the one who overcomes the enemy.
Ilya Muromets is the main character of the Kyiv cycle of epics. The most important of them: “The Healing of Ilya of Muromets”, “Ilya and the Nightingale the Robber”, “Ilya and Sokolnik”, “Ilya in a quarrel with Prince Vladimir”, “Ilya and Kalin the Tsar”, “Ilya and the Foul Idol”. The most ancient epics are considered to be about the battle of Ilya Muromets with the Nightingale the Robber and about the battle with Sokolnik (his son).
Back in the 19th century, scientists wondered who was behind in an epic way the enemy of the Russian hero - Nightingale the Robber. Some saw in him mythical creature- the personification of the forces of nature, the beekeeper-dart frog, others expressed the opinion that this image was borrowed from the folklore of other peoples. Still others held the view that Nightingale is ordinary person engaged in robbery. For his ability to whistle loudly, he was nicknamed Nightingale. In the epic narrative, the Nightingale the Robber is depicted as a creature living in the forests with all his brood.
The epic tells about military exploits Ilya. He leaves home, from the village of Karacharovo, near Murom, to the capital city of Kyiv to serve Prince Vladimir. Along the way, Ilya accomplishes his first feat. At Chernigov he defeats the enemy army that besieged the city.
Is it near the city of Chernigov?
The forces are caught up in black and black,
And he is black and black, like a black crow.
So no one walks around here like infantry,
No one rides here on a good horse,
The black raven bird does not fly,
Let the gray beast not prowl.
And Ilya, “a burly, good fellow,” began to trample this great force with his horse and stab him with a spear. And he defeated this great force. For this, the Chernigov men invited him to Chernigov as a governor, but the hero did not agree, since he was going to serve the entire Russian land.
He is warned that the road to Kyiv is turbulent and dangerous:
The path has been blocked up, walled up,
Like that one of Gryazi or Black,
Yes, whether it’s near the birch tree or the gag...
The Nightingale the Robber sits with oak cheese,
The Nightingale the Robber sits Odikhmantiev1 son.2
Ilya’s opponent is depicted in the epic in a hyperbolic way, his formidable power is exaggerated. This is a robber villain. He “whistles like a nightingale”, “shouts like an animal”. Because of this, “the ant grasses are entangled, all the azure flowers are crumbling, the dark forests are all bowing to the ground, and what people there are are all lying dead.”
However, Ilya was not frightened by the warning of the Chernigov men. He chooses the "straight road". Ilya’s good heroic horse, hearing the Nightingale’s whistle, “rests and stumbles on the baskets.” But the hero is fearless. He is ready to accomplish his second feat. The duel is described laconically, in the epic tradition. Ilya takes a tight “explosive” bow, pulls a “silk bowstring”, puts on a “hardened arrow” and shoots. He fastens the defeated Nightingale to a “damask stirrup” and takes him to Kyiv. This is the hero’s first visit to Kyiv; no one here knows him yet. The prince himself turns to Ilya with questions:
"Tell me, you're crazy,
Portly good fellow,
Well done to you somehow, yes name is called,
Call him, the daring one, after his fatherland?
The prince does not believe Ilya’s story, he doubts that it is possible to travel along the road where many forces have been gathered and the Nightingale the Robber rules. Then Ilya leads the prince to Nightingale. But the robber recognizes only the power of Ilya over himself, seeing in him a worthy opponent and winner, he honors him above the prince. To Vladimir’s order to demonstrate his art, Nightingale replies:
“It’s not with you today, Prince, that I’m having lunch,
It’s not you that I want to listen to.
I dined with the old Cossack Ilya Muromets,
Yes, I want to listen to him."3
Then Ilya Muromets orders him to whistle “half the whistle of a nightingale” and “half the cry of an animal.” But the Nightingale disobeyed and whistled with all his might. “The poppies on the towers were crooked, and the saplings in the towers scattered from him, Nightingale’s whistle, that there are little people, they are all lying dead.” And Vladimir the Prince “covers himself with a marten fur coat.” Only Ilya remained on his feet. With the words: “You are full of whistling and like a nightingale, you are full of crying and fathers and mothers, you are full of widows and young wives, you are full of letting little children become orphans!” he chops off the Nightingale's head.
Ilya’s feat was filled with special meaning for his contemporaries, who advocated the unification of Russian lands and the integrity of ancient Russian state. The epic affirms the idea of serving Rus', of performing a national feat in its name.
The epic "Ilya Muromets and the Nightingale the Robber" has features characteristic of the artistic originality of epics. This plot genre. Events are depicted in development, characters in action. The epic is characterized by unique expressive and graphic means: triple repetitions (in the description of the strongman near Chernigov, the hero’s whistle), hyperbole (image of the Nightingale the Robber, the heroic horse Ilya), comparisons, metaphors, epithets ( dark forest, grass-ants, azure flowers), diminutive suffixes, etc. Fantastic and real images are intertwined in the epic (Nightingale - Ilya).
Epics constitute one of the most remarkable phenomena of Russian folk literature; in their epic calm, richness of detail, vivid color, distinct character of the persons depicted, and variety of mythical, historical and everyday elements, they are not inferior to the ancient epic. During the lesson you will become familiar with the content and artistic originality epics “Volga and Mikula Selyaninovich”, “Ilya Muromets and the Nightingale the Robber”.
The main character is Ilya Muromets, peasant son, that’s why he’s wearing the most ordinary clothes: a Russian shirt, trousers and boots. He lay on the stove for 33 years, not thinking about anything. And heroic strength awakened in him along with the desire to stand up for the Russian mother land.
The author emphasizes strength, power and courage Holy Russian hero Ilya Muromets. The scene of Ilya Muromets' victory over the Nightingale the Robber certainly has fairy-tale features. Firstly, this is a conversation between Ilya Muromets and his horse. Of course, triple repetitions, fairy-tale appeals and fairy-tale epithets can also be called fairy-tale elements.
But they truly sound like epics the following words: “He began to jump from mountain to mountain,” “the ant-grass kept getting entangled, and Lazarus’ flowers fell off.” Before us is nothing more than a means of artistic expression hyperbola.
Widely used in both epics and fairy tales words with diminutive suffixes:grass, path, stirrup.
Remember the last lines of the poem “Ruslan and Lyudmila” by A. S. Pushkin:
Things of days gone by
Legends of deep antiquity .
Indeed, real events that took place a long time ago, during Kievan Rus, and it was then that the creators of epics composed their songs from songs and legends.
The epics were written in a special solemn verse. They had musical accompaniment. Special artistic technique, which was used in epics, is certainly a hyperbole.
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- Read the epic “Volga and Mikula Selyaninovich.” Find in it examples of hyperbole, words with diminutive suffixes, and constant epithets.
- Read the epic “Ilya Muromets and the Nightingale the Robber.” Find in it examples of hyperbole, words with diminutive suffixes, and constant epithets.