Nikita the Tanner

In some sources he is called Kirill or Kyrylo the Tanner (Russian: Кирилл Кожемяка, Ukrainian: Кирило Кожум'я́ка),[3] sometimes Elijah the Tailor (Russian: Илья Швец, Ukrainian: Ілля Швець).

[4] This Eastern European fairy tale set in Kyiv begins when a Slavic dragon, Zmey Gorynych, attacks the lands of the Kievan Rus', taking beautiful girls as prisoners.

Gorynych revealed to the prince's daughter there was only one person who could defeat him: a tanner from Kiev named Nikita.

The princess then told this secret to her pigeon, who then flew to alert her father, the prince.

Nikita then went to Gorynych's lair, and, after a long fight, had the dragon heavily beaten with his heavy wooden club.