medieval warrior with weapons and armor was found, but did this body and things of the real dobrynya nikitich of the ancient russian land, prince vladimir , where did this image come from, because the epic character can turn out to be a myth from beginning to end sword that never materialized. people about the ideal hero however, the chroniclers confirm the existence of a real person named dobrynya and, moreover , record his biography in detail. for the first time, the rich are mentioned in the tale of bygone years and vladimir and his uncle dobrynya went to novgorod, this is like a mark of departure on a military ticket, after which novgorod became the main place of service for our hero. the prehistory of everyone was also connected with this place, and in order to understand the path of dobrynya, the path of the warrior, it is necessary to plunge into the events before his birth at the end of the ninth century. on this bank of the volkhov river, the vikings viking warriors of the varangian prince rurik landed. initially, they were a kind of amphibious assault of the middle ages, however, on