# Ilia Murometz — Short Fiction character guide

> Ilia Murometz in Short Fiction by Vsevolod Garshin.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Ilia

**First appearance:** 0003-coward

## Who they are

A legendary hero referenced in the text.

## In the story

### [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_56_se/chapters/xvi)

Subject of Senichka's painting; depicted reading the Gospel in a vault, wrestling with the command to turn the other cheek.

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