Russian Academy of Sciences

A Bear-Depicted Bronze Plaque from Early Medieval Altai Reveals a Forgotten Cultural Frontier

For more than thirteen centuries, it lay unnoticed in the soil along a quiet Siberian river. When it resurfaced, the object was small—a bronze plaque…

Lost Relics of Saint Hilarion Found Beneath Suzdal’s Cathedral After 90 Years

The long-lost remains of Saint Hilarion, Metropolitan of Suzdal and Yuriev, have been rediscovered beneath the Nativity Cathedral of the Suzdal Kremlin, nearly ninety years…