The first time "bogatyr" is used to denote "hero" and subsequently becoming synonymous with each other was recorded in Stanisław Sarnicki's book "Descriptio veteris et novae Poloniae cum divisione ejusdem veteri et nova" ("A description of the Old and the New Poland with the old, and a new division of the same"), printed in 1585 in Cracow (in the Aleksy Rodecki's printing house), in which he says, "Rossi ... de heroibus suis, quos Bohatiros id est semideos vocant, aliis persuadere conantur." ("Russians ... try to convince others about their heroes whom they call Bogatirs, meaning demigods.")