Residents of Ancient Novgorod dedicated an exhibition in the Sergiev-Posad Museum

Women's question - in ancient Novgorod. On March 8, the exhibition "Beautiful Middle Ages" opened in the Sergiev-Posad Museum-Reserve. What they wore, to whom they wrote and how the Novgorods of the XII century were entertained, Yulia Strukova learned. Requests and assignments. Make jewelry, buy fabric, stand up for your sister. Medieval Novgorod ladies are literate, educated, have equal rights with men. "There's a love note. Directly writes: I am waiting for you on Saturday in rye, says the chief curator of the Novgorod Museum-Reserve Alexey Andrienko. Next to the certificates are two large silver treasures of the turn of the X-XI centuries. Novgorod on the way from the Varangians to the Greeks, when the first connections were established, the banks of the rivers are restless. The treasures were hidden, hoping to return. Coins were sometimes melted into jewelry. Novgorod residents knew a lot about clothes and jewelry. These are finds made of gold. Some of them were found on the territory of the princely residence "Rurikovo settlement". “The amethyst stone is embraced on both sides by two dragon heads. It's a Scandinavian theme. The ring was a very small 15 size, its owner had a fragile physique, explains the curator of the exhibition, senior researcher at the Novgorod Museum-Reserve Anna Fomina. Novgorod women are surrounded by children's toys, crests and clips, items for needlework and hygiene. This object, which looks like a stone, is actually made of glass: ironing is the prototype of an iron. The inhabitants of Novgorod are Scandinavians, Finno-Ugrics and Slavs. The young lady of each ethnic group can be distinguished by costume and accessories. Textured fibulas, clasps for clothes were characteristic of the outfits of Scandinavian girls. A rare find is a figure of Valkyrie. “Apparently she was an amulet. Maybe even male. Because the Valkyries, like the virgin warriors, carried the fallen warriors to Valhalla, a paradise for the Vikings who fell in battle, where they feasted, fought ceaselessly, resurrected, fought anew and resurrected again. To which Slavic tribe the woman belonged was determined by the temporal rings with which she framed her face. Here lived and Vyatichi, and Krivichi, and Ilmen Slavs. In the costume of Finno-Ugric always had a lot of metal ringing objects – it was believed that they ward off evil spirits. “One showcase is devoted to bronze casting by women. Here we show stone, foundry forms, noisy pendants, flasks - these are special spoons that poured liquid bronze on foundry forms, - comments the curator of the exhibition, head of the archaeological department of the Sergiev Posad Museum-Reserve Tatiana Novoselov. These things are even more ancient - V-VII centuries. It turns out that even then, and not in Novgorod, the ladies were not only guardians of the family hearth. The objects were found in the Ratkovo burial ground of the Vladimir region and now belong to the collection of the Sergiev-Posad Museum. From a thousand items, not only images of mysterious strangers of antiquity are formed, but also in general - the Beautiful Middle Ages.

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