Yeruslan Lazarevich

Yeruslan Lazarevich (Cyrilic: Еруслан Лазаревич), also known as Eruslan Lazarevich or in the Tatar original Uruslan, is the Russian folk literature hero of The Tale of Eruslane Lazarevic, recounting the many military and amorous adventures of a young and beautiful hero, a tale which was much liked by the old Russian readers due to a variety of its content and by appearing frequently on the lubok, was widely spread among the people. Its influence is noticeable even on some retelling of tales about Ilya of Murom.

It was based on Turkic (Tatar) alteration of certain episodes of the adventures of an Iranian hero Rustem, in particular two things: the campaign, by Rustem, in Mazandaran, for the release of the Persian king Kay Kaus, and his battle with his son, Sohrab. The father of Uruslan (according to the Undolskogo list of the narrative) is Zalazar, who retains the name of the father of Rustem, Zal-Zar, the King of Persia turns into Kirkous from the original Kay Kaus, the horse of Uruslan, is called Arash, while the horse of Rustem was Rahsh and so on. Uruslan himself - no one else, as Rustam, whose name was already in the Turkic medium changed to Arslan (Lion). Between the two above-mentioned episodes, the first of which is the beginning of the second – the tales were ended, to immediately place the other adventures of Uruslan (with little connection in the original versions), such as the meeting with a Russian hero Ivan, the fight with him, then their fraternisation and mutual assistance in the search by Uruslan for Ivan’s daughter taken by Theodulus-zmeyya Kandauly Feodulovny; the meeting of Uruslan with beautiful princesses, held by a giant-keeper, Ivashko; the battle with the sea king dragon saving Princess Anastasiya Vahramyeevna, his marriage to Princess Sunflower City and so on. These adventures of Uruslan do not have a direct correspondence in the adventures of an Iranian Rustem, but find parallels in the various oriental tales.

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