История находки Бородинского (Бессарабского) клада
The history of finding the Borodino (Bessarabian) hoard

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the finding of the Borodino (Bessarabian) hoard in the South of the Dniester and the Prut interfluves area. The circumstances of the finding of the hoard and of its purchase by the Imperial Archaeological Commission (IAC) are invoked for the first time. Documents from a case “On the discovery of ancient objects near the village of Borodino” (The Scientific archive of the Institute for the History of Material Culture of RAS, fund 1, list 1, case No 223) are introduced into scientific circulation. We use the information and facts, collected in the village of Borodino in 2019. They have been previously published but remained unknown. On February 14, 1912, the German colonist J. Schäfer found a clay vessel with metal and stone goods. The local teacher J. Kräenbring played an important role in preserving this finding. Professor F.I. Knauer drew attention of the IAC to it. J. Sheh and B.V. Farmakovskiy conducted negotiations about the transfer of the hoard to the IAC. The first information about the finding appeared in The Odessaer Zeitung on February 22, 1912. Professor E.R. von Stern presented the finding to scientists at the International Congress of the Historical Arts in London in 1913. The finding is not related to the mounds on the top of the adjacent plateau which E.R. von Stern wanted to excavate in 1914. The hoard was found in the natural limit “The Snake hills” buried in sand on the hillside of the Sand Mountain on the right shore of the river Saka across the village of Borodino. This finding is a complex of long accumulation. V.S. Bochkarev wrote about it half a century ago.

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