Churilo Plyonkovich

Illustration by Andrey Ryabushkin in Russian Epic Bogatyrs (1895)

Churilo or Churila Plyonkovich, also spelled Plenkovich (Russian: Чурило Плёнкович), is a hero appearing in Russian byliny (oral epic poems). He belongs to the Kievan cycle (or Galician cycle).^[1][2][3] He is presented as the best dressed man in all of Russia, and he appears at the wedding of Dunay Ivanovich [ru] and Nastasya Korolevichna [ru].^[4]

References

1. Kononenko 2025, p. 491.
2. Terras 1985, p. 68.
3. Bailey & Ivanova 2015, p. 228.
4. Dixon-Kennedy 1998, p. 52.

Sources

•  "Чурило Пленкович" . Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906.
• Bailey, James; Ivanova, Tatyana (20 May 2015). "Churila Plyonkovich". An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-47693-1.
• Dixon-Kennedy, Mike (8 December 1998). "Churilo Plenkovich". Encyclopedia of Russian and Slavic Myth and Legend. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 52. ISBN 978-1-57607-487-9.
• Kononenko, Natalie (11 April 2025). "Byliny: Russian Folk Epic". In Beissinger, Margaret H. (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-008077-8.
• Terras, Victor (1 January 1985). "Bylina". Handbook of Russian Literature. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-04868-1.