An early usage of the word bogatyr was recorded in Sernitskiy'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 at an unknown location, in which he says, Rossi de heroibus suis, quos Bohatiros id est semideos vocant, aliis persuadere conantur .