Kievan Rus

I want to tell a story about my first Slavic amulet-pendant, which dates back to the 11th - 13th centuries. It happened last year in early spring. One warm sunny day we decided to go look for a place where the ramparts of an ancient Russian…

The abbreviation KR is familiar to many diggers. And for those who, for various reasons, do not use this abbreviation and therefore do not know about it, we explain: KR - Kievan Rus. Since the Old Russian state occupied a large territory,…

Familiar comrades hardly walked through the harvested fields this fall. Why did they lose interest in places that, although they had been knocked out, gave something after plowing? And the answer was simple: the comrades switched to…

Quite recently, at one of the antiques auctions, a digger pulled down a unique cross from the times of Kievan Rus, made using cloisonne enamels technology. Gilded, with silver partitions, and two colors of enamel - a unique work of art by…

Just yesterday I caught my eye on one lot that caught my attention because the item was sold there a thousand years ago, but the price was less than $10. I decided to wait until the end of the auction to see how much this artifact would be…