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Alexandr Radayev
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William's Normans defeat King Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066
On 14 October 1066 the decisive battle in British history was fought at Hastings: the Normans under William defeated the Anglo-Saxons and their King Harold. William the Conqueror became the new king.
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The Basement Floor of That Very "Mint"
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The Chersonesos mint proved to be a residential house, half of which was backfilled
An interesting observation about archaeologists: all of them adore discovering monuments of the utmost importance, unique, rare, the most significant, and so on. So it was with the already described baptistery of Prince Vladimir. You find the skeleton of a church: yes, this is where the prince was baptised. You
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Remains of five-apse church in Chersonesos uncovered during construction of outposts in the 1940s
Remains of five-apse church in Chersonesos uncovered during construction of outposts in the 1940s. Apses are semicircular projections that house altars or church appurtenances
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The artist Ruth Mendel has made a book tunnel from an old German Bible
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Nicholas II leaving a crypt at Chersonesos in a photograph banned by the censor
Nicholas II emerges from an adjoining wall crypt at Chersonesos. The original photograph is in Chersonesos; on the reverse side the censor has written "Not for publication". Because the Emperor had adopted an awkward posture
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An elderly woman picked up a potsherd from the ground, wet it with saliva and threw it away
Saw an old woman pick up a potsherd from the ground, lick it on both sides, look at it and throw it away. An antiquarian or a soil scientist?
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Graffiti by the Vandals of Tsarist Russia
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A photograph from the Black Sea Fleet Museum
A photograph from the Black Sea Fleet Museum. Especially for those who tell us that the St George ribbon was invented by perfidious propagandists in 2009
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Female figurine from the Zaraysk Museum shown from four sides
The Zaraysk Museum. A woman without make-up
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The Church with the Ark in Chersonesos, built in the 6th century on an amphitheatre site
The church is called the Basilica with the Ark at Chersonesos. It was built in the 6th century on top of an earlier amphitheatre, the tiers of which came to light beneath the floor of the church. There is even something allegorical in it: a temple raised on the site