Amazing fate of amazing things. Rabinovich M.G.

This book is about the adventures of things. The golden helmet was lost by Prince Yaroslav Vsevolodovich during the battle near Yuryev-Polsky in 1216 and found in the same place after 592. The horseman, a symbolic sculptural portrait of the Grand Duke of Moscow, decorating the current Frolovs of the Moscow Kremlin, continued his life as the icon of George the Victorious.

Kolchug from the weapons chamber, granted by Ivan the Terrible Ataman Yermak, caused his death in the waters of the Yenisei, and then, as an object of worship, fell into the sanctuary of the Khanty, in whom the Nenets took it away, and the Nenets - Russians, and under Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, she again ended up in the arms ward, where she can be seen to this day. And the Dovmont's sword? And the Sigtun gates of Novgorod Sofia? And the lipstick bank is Pushkin's inkwell? And the Kalita player in the bone found at the Kutafia tower?

the history of these and other things - in the fascinating book of Mikhail Rabinovich, archaeologist, doctor of historical sciences, first head of the Moscow archaeological expedition.