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Examples
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She took the great hand of the bogatir in her little fingers, and drew him to another room, and hid him there.
Old Peter's Russian Tales Arthur Ransome 1925
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But before he had lain there long there were a knocking, a stamping, a rattling, a grumbling, and in came the little old man, one yard high, with a beard seven yards long, and without wasting words the little fellow leapt on the shoulders of the bogatir, and set to beating him and thumping him, first on one side of his head and then on the other.
Old Peter's Russian Tales Arthur Ransome 1925
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The Princess called Sunrise, and the bogatir rushed in, swung his glittering sword three times round his golden head, and cut off all three heads of the snake.
Old Peter's Russian Tales Arthur Ransome 1925
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"O man of power, O great and mighty bogatir, have mercy upon me.
Old Peter's Russian Tales Arthur Ransome 1925
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Any one would envy his possessions, and he himself is a very bogatir, [2] a man of strength and power. "
Old Peter's Russian Tales Arthur Ransome 1925
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Why, just see what a lot of things belong to him, the firs, the pine-tops, and the birches, all in their robes of down -- ways and means that any one might envy; and he himself a _bogatir_! "[
Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore William Ralston Shedden Ralston 1858
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