Sineus kurgan

Historians who adhere to the Norman theory in the narrative of N.M. Karamzin are always inclined to assert that our ancestors were wild, incapable of organizing their lands, therefore three princes named Rurik, Sineus and Truvor called to us from the Varangians. And for fans of archeology a mystery arose - where is Sineus buried, who, according to legend, was put in a golden coffin? That is, where is the Sineus kurgan, in which this coffin can be found?

That is, where is the Sineus kurgan, in which this coffin can be found?

If you search in various sources, then immediately striking many interesting phrases. For example, "Sineus' burial mound is a legendary place, the burial place of an ancient Russian Varangian king". He, it turns out, was also a Russ tsar? In "History of the Russ State" N.M. Karamzin writes: "Rurik arrived in Novgorod, Sineus - in Beloozero, in the region of the Finnish people of the weights, and Truvor - in Izborsk, the city of Krivichi". Another historian Normanist S.M. Soloviev also supports this version as the beginning of Russ. That's right... True, nothing with this version of "dense Russ" does not fit the very name of the country given by the same Scandinavians - Gardarika, that is, "the country of cities". We need to find the mound of Sineus.

Today few people believe in the reality of this kurgan and burial (few have ever heard of its existence), but historical documents give a positive answer. So where was Sineus buried? Despite the mistrust of the annals of those times, nevertheless we turn to them. In the "Tale of Bygone Years," in the translation of D.S. Likhachev, it is written: "And three brothers were elected with their families, and they took all the Russ with them and came". And the elder, Rurik, sat in Novgorod, and the other, Sineus, in Beloozero, and the third, Truvor, - in Izborsk...". Sineus, who was so nicknamed for the blue-black color of his mustache, people loved, and when Sineus died, the Russ’ still honored his grave for a long time. Here, of course, the question is complex - remember that the brothers came to Russ in 862, and Sineus died in 864... So, according to all sources, Sineus ruled in Beloozero. In the same place, probably, and it is necessary to search for a kurgan of Sineus.

In Belozersk, virtually no memories of the kurgan of Sineus were not preserved. Although here, just like in the reserve, there are many monuments of ancient Russian architecture, including the Kremlin reservoirs. The Kremlin Hill itself, towering above the White Lake at 15-17 meters, would seem to be of little note if it were not for one phenomenon: there are 5 dry, inexhaustible reservoirs on the Kremlin's territory, and the water level in them is fifteen meters higher than on a huge White Lake. Thanks to such water supplies, the Kremlin was useless to take a siege. Even the gang of the famous Panos Lisovsky, who ruined quite a few cities of North-Eastern Russ at the beginning of the 17th century, this Kremlin turned out to be too tough. True, even relatively recently about the legendary hill here knew every teenager. In the pre-revolutionary textbook of history, the figure shows a fairly high hill, and under the drawing - the signature: "The kurgan, known as the Sineusov, near Beloozero." History says that the first collector of Russ lands, Ivan the Third, visiting the possessions, for the first time conducted archaeological excavations of the Sineus burial kurgan. He ordered to dig 4 pits, get the finds, and then so intelligently fall asleep, so that the kurgan would remain unharmed.

Immediately after the 1917 revolution, there was no longer any question of the "inviolability" of the Sineus burial kurgan. For the post-revolutionary generation, this barrow was nothing more than an ordinary sandy hill. And put the local builders of eyes on the kurgan of Sineus - decided to start to dig half of the hill, the sand was enough for many construction projects. And the rest of the hill was decided to be used rationally: to dig a cellar in the womb of the kurgan, to enclose it from the inside with a frame and to arrange thus the largest potato storage in the district. The potato suddenly rotted and turned into a source of stench. The framework also rotted and collapsed into a bubbling mash. A hole was formed on the place of the hill.

As the local old-timer, former history teacher, painter and local historian A.G. Lapin, argues, there are many arguments in favor of the fact that this hill with a rotten top was the kurgan of Prince Sineus. Lapin says that the spirit of Sineus, disturbed by the Bolsheviks, hitherto wanders around the district and lures the grave-diggers into a dump at the top. Dozens of corpses were pulled out by local collective farmers. There are other proofs in favor of the artificial origin of the kurgan. For example, all the surrounding mounds are glacial moraines with cobblestones and boulders, and the kurgan is entirely of uniform sand.

In addition to A. Lapin, only the visiting historian V. Korobkin was engaged in searches, so that when Lapin died, research and searches stopped. In April 2000, after studying the archive of Lapin, a survey of local veterans and intelligence on-site, the expedition of the search organization Kosmopoisk still found the place described by the local historian. A half-split "bifurcated" peak, slightly overgrown with trees, long overgrown excavations (pits?), a water filled quadrangular pit from a vegetable store - everything was in place! An experiment was conducted - after April 12, 2000, several vertical meter holes were pierced at the top and not far from the kurgan. Overnight in the holes in the ground water. The next day the study of the ion composition of this water near the mound showed nothing unusual, and at the top of the kurgan - they pointed to the presence of a large content of silver ions in the water. So, there is a lot of silverware in the earth?! So is this really the Sineus kurgan? The answers can only give further research...

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