bylina
thumb| Dobrynya Nikitich rescues Zabava Putyatichna from the dragon Gorynych, by [[Ivan Bilibin (1941)]]
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16 sectionsContents
- Terminology
- History
- Origins
- Later history
- Research history
- Scholarly approaches
- Collections
- Classifications
- ''Bylina'' cycles
- Structure
- Common themes
- Major characters and prototypes
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
thumb| Dobrynya Nikitich rescues Zabava Putyatichna from the dragon Gorynych, by [[Ivan Bilibin (1941)]]
A ' (, ; ), also popularly known as a starina''''' (), is a type of Russian oral epic poem.