Ilya Muromets
（重定向自Ilya of Murom）
![Ilya Muromets (1914) by Viktor Vasnetsov](/Images/godic/202502/08/Vastnetsov_19143240.jpg")
![Forensic reconstruction of Ilya Muromets by Sergey Nikitin](/Images/godic/202502/08/Iliya_muromets_reconstruction033240.JPG")
![Incorrupt relic of saint Ilya Muromets in Near Caves at Kiev Pechersk Lavra](/Images/godic/202502/08/Iliya_Muromets_Kiev3240.jpg")
![Bogatyrs (1898), a famous painting by Viktor Vasnetsov. Ilya Muromets is in the center, with Dobrynya Nikitich to his left, and Alyosha Popovich to his right](/Images/godic/202502/08/Die_drei_Bogatyr3240.jpg")
Ilya Muromets (Russian:Илья Муромец), or Ilya of Murom, sometimes Ilya Murometz, is a folk hero of Kievan Rus', a bogatyr (akin to knight-errant) and a character of many bylinas (East Slavic medieval epic poems). In the legends he is often featured alongside fellow bogatyrs Dobrynya Nikitich and Alyosha Popovich.