Traditional Russian Byliny or country poems, feature an epic bandit named Nightingale the Robber or Solovei the Brigand. In 1845 and 1847, Pavel Ivanovich Melnikov, the editor of the Russian journal Nizhegorodskie Gubernskie Vedomosti, issued a version of the Solovei myth that he had unearthed in a handwritten compilation of tales from the seventeenth century. As one of the most well-known Ruthenian epics, the Bylina about Nightingale the Robber has been documented 132 occasions. The monstrous Solovey had traits of both humans and birds, could fly; lived in a nest with a human family and also drank via his hands. He was reported to reside in a forest and would perch in a tree while blowing a loud whistle to startle passersby. According to folklore, Ilya Muromets escaped the whistle despite Nightingale razing half of the nearby forest. Ilya Muromets injured Nightingale the Robber by shooting him in the eye and temple with arrows before dragging the beaten foe in front of Vladimir, the Kievan Prince. Nightingale the Robber, however, refused the request of Vladimir to whistle because he pretended to be too hurt in front of him. To make his wounds go away, Nightingale the Robber would request to drink wine and then whistle for the prince. But all of the palaces of Vladimir were demolished and filled with dead people when he whistled, after drinking wine. So Ilya Muromets then brought Nightingale the Robber into a field where he had his head severed. [Information and Image Credit : Nightingale_the_Robber, Wikipedia] [Image : Ilya Muromets and Nightingale the Robber, by Ivan Bilibin] [The Work (Image) is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The Work (Image) is in the public domain in Russia according to article 1281 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, articles 5 and 6 of Law No. 231-FZ of the Russian Federation of December 18, 2006 (the Implementation Act for Book IV of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation); (Please Relate to Individual Image URLs for More Usage Property)] [Source Image-Link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solovej.jpg ] #Mythology
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