Epics

They go along the land of Russian heroes. They fight with enemy troops near the walls of cities, expel robbers from the forests, destroy snakes and other monsters. And people do not have the best defenders. So strong that the earth barely holds them. Such brave that they are not afraid to come out against the myriad hordes. So smart that anyone will beat in chess. And almost immortal - they are not written in the battle "death."
Songs-whiskers about the great heroes sang among the people for centuries. Cleaning for children and easy for reading - at the same time stylized under the living language of epic songs - made their famous folklorist Alexander Nechaev, who performed a prosaic retelling. The artist Vladimir Pertsov also used a stylization technique. Each of its drawings is framed by text, this technique was once used in Russian chronicles, but the letters themselves send us to the charter and a half -steam - the types of writing, which recorded historical events in Russia