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Folk legends made Stepan Razin a sorcerer: bullets could not touch him, and once, locked in prison, he drew a boat on the wall with charcoal, stepped into it and sailed away.

D. N. Sadovnikov, Tales and Legends of the Samara Region (1884)
Art: 17th-century engraving
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