Slavic Mythology
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Bogatyrs
Painting · Viktor Vasnetsov
Vasnetsov's Bogatyrs (1898) is the defining image of Russian and Slavic folk-epic, the three heroes of the byliny rendered at monumental scale.Crosses Romanticism × Painting × Slavic Mythology, a cros
Zbruch Idol (Svetovid)
Sculpture (limestone, pre-Christian Slavic cult pillar) · Anonymous (West Slavic stonecutter, 9th or 10th century CE)
The Zbruch Idol is a 2.67-meter limestone pillar with four faces sharing a single conical cap, discovered in 1848 in the Zbruch River near the village of Lychkivtsi in what is now western Ukraine. It
Vasilisa the Beautiful and the Hut of Baba Yaga
Illustration (book illustration, gouache and watercolor) · Ivan Bilibin (Russian, 1900)
This illustration by Ivan Bilibin from his 1900 edition of the Russian fairy tale Vasilisa the Beautiful shows the heroine approaching the hut of Baba Yaga on its three chicken legs, the skull-topped
