Historical monuments - legends, legends, annals - these are the remnants by which we get acquainted with the past fate, they paint us the Russian people at his early age, they give us ideas about what he was before. In the heroes we see that our people loved and that he hated, we see him with his good and bad qualities.... Reading epics, we should not imagine the heroes as real, who once lived as people, but should see in them the personification of an entire era of folk life, the features of folk art that survived and reached us in the form that their people created.