… Exactly so - in the Scythian burial mounds lay "ancient Greek gold" !!!
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The Hermitage contains the famous earrings found in 1853 during excavations on the outskirts of Feodosia. The earrings represent a complex composition, in which there are various ornaments and a tiny chariot driven by the goddess of victory - Nika. Moreover, winged Geniuses fly next to the horses, and at the edge of the chariot there is a warrior with a large shield in his hand. Interestingly, it is possible to see many of the smallest details only with magnification. This microtechnique is still surprising, especially since scientists have found out that earrings were created by ancient Greeks (??? Are the Greeks? Maybe Scythians? * Note from the author of the blog) back in the 4th century BC. The earrings are made from microscopic grains that can only be seen with a strong magnifying glass. The best jewelers tried to create something similar, but no one managed to repeat the unique technology of the ancient Greeks (Scythians),which was named grain. The smallest gold grain melted when heated, as a result, the art of the ancient Greeks was recognized as unsurpassed, and all attempts to unravel its mystery ceased.
So, in 1853, the famous Feodosia marine painter I. Aivazovsky received official permission from the Ministry of the Imperial Court and Districts to conduct archaeological work in the Feodosia region. The purpose of the archaeological research was allegedly the search for "old, antique Feodosia." In the middle of the 19th century, there were allegedly disputes between scientists around the world about the location of medieval Kafa-Feodosia. Someone placed it on the slopes of Tepe-Oba, in the area of Cape St. Ilya, someone at the foot of Karadag, in the area of today's Koktebel, but someone in all seriousness carried ancient Kafa 70 km to the east, to Cape Opuk. But one day a well-known archaeologist of that time, Siberian A. A., walking along the slopes of Tepe-Oba, discovered an ancient Greek coin, presumably 5th century BC. The archaeologist shared his find with the famous Feodosia artist I. Aivazovsky, expressing his opinion about the existence of an "ancient city" in the area of Cape St. Ilya on the slopes of the Tepe-Oba ridge. The artist fully supported the ideas of Sibirskiy A. A. and took a direct part in organizing an archaeological expedition.
Already in the spring of 1853, survey work was in full swing on the slopes of the ridge; almost immediately 5 burial mounds were discovered. Four mounds were completely empty, but in the fifth …! In the fifth, the burial of a woman, presumably 4-5 centuries BC, was discovered, a lot of exquisite ceramic objects, as well as a whole galaxy of interesting jewelry, including the FEODOSIAN EARRINGS, unique in their craftsmanship. The news of the unique Feodosia find spread all over the world, attracting the attention of numismatists, antique dealers and goldsmiths. Jewelers from all over the world tried to copy the decoration, but to no avail - the technologies of the ancient Greek masters were irretrievably lost. Even the famous Carl Faberge, who tried to repeat the "Feodosia earrings", suffered a complete fiasco.
Encouraged by the incredible find, I. Aivazovsky with trebled energy continued his archaeological searches, and during the summer-autumn of 1853. uncovered more than 80 mounds in the vicinity of Feodosia, and luck smiled on the artist again - one of the burial grounds on the Tepe-Oba ridge was also full of jewelry. Naturally, all the jewelry found was counted, described and sent to St. Petersburg, where they were exhibited for all to see in the Hermitage.
According to the results of the archaeological expedition led by I. Aivazovsky, the following conclusion was made - on the slopes of the Tepe-Oba ridge there was a Greek Necropolis, approximately 4-5 centuries BC.
This beautiful tale about "Feodosia earrings" can be heard from the Feodosia guides or read on numerous "historical" sites. The reality, however, is much harsher and dirtier.
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In fact, the number of so-called “antique jewelry” that cannot be copied is quite large and amounts to hundreds and thousands of jewelry. Naturally, this group also includes the so-called "Scythian gold", jewelry found in Scythian burial mounds. The geography of the finds of "Scythian gold" is very extensive - from Altai to the Danube from east to west, and from the White Sea to North Africa from north to south. Many of the "Scythian jewelry" are really unique and used to create them technologies unknown even at the present time. The photographs below ("Feodosia earrings on the first") show a small part of the "golden female earrings" found during excavations of Scythian burial mounds in completely different places: South Siberia, Tavria, Taman, Dnieper, Volga region. These unique products will have one thing in common - they are truly unique, it is extremely difficult, and often impossible to counterfeit them, and they are works of art of ancient Greek antique jewelry masters, whose technologies are irretrievably lost.
Exactly so - in the Scythian burial mounds lay "ancient Greek gold" !!! Including Siberian and Altai! How it got there, modern "historical science" is absolutely not interested in - but you never know - bought at the bazaar, at a sale!
The only arguments of these "fighters for ancient Greece" is the assertion that the Scythians are nomads, and the nomads are not capable of creating unique masterpieces.
So, on the slopes of the Tepe-Oba ridge, an archaeological expedition led by I. Aivazovsky discovered some burial mounds in the amount of about 90 pieces, which were identified as the Greek Necropolis of the 4th century BC. However, 50 years later, a certain German forester F. Siebold, on the same slopes of the Tepe-Oba ridge, found about 30 objects of the medieval hydraulic system of Feodosia, as well as a significant number of ceramic water pipes. Naturally, the ceramic water supply system was not created in the 4th century BC, but much later, in the 15-16th centuries.
It turns out a very amusing picture - the medieval hydraulic system was built straight on the ancient Greek necropolis! There is one of two things - either our ancestors, who built the ceramic water supply system, had no idea about hygiene and sanitation, or someone is openly and blatantly lying. But I don’t think that our ancestors would have started building a hydraulic system in the middle of burial mounds, so the point is different!
By the way, it is known that the Sibirskiy-Aivazovsky expedition uncovered about 90 burial mounds on the Tepe-Oba ridge, but where are they, and why have they not survived to this day? And as a rule, all burial mounds, where something worthwhile was found, has its own name (Kurgan Kul-Oba, Kurgan Solokha, Tsarsky Kurgan, etc.) What is the name of the mound in which the "Feodosia earrings were found "? No way.
The same F. Zibold, describing the Tepe-Oba ridge in 1900, mentions, in addition to hydraulic structures, numerous stone ruins of other structures, but these were definitely not burial grounds.
By the way, the big question is why gentlemen historians of the mid-19th century, who allegedly talked about the location of "old Feodosia", did not see these ruins and hydraulic structures, as if they did not exist? Have they been struck by sudden blindness?
But after all, I. Aivazovsky, who was allegedly born in 1817 in Feodosia, should have known for certain about some ruins on Tepe-Oba, which at that time could have had a completely different look.
In the painting by K. Bossoli, depicting Feodosia in 1842, we can observe a rather interesting landscape - fortifications and structures of unknown purpose in the foreground and the city itself in the background, in the valley. It is quite obvious that the Italian artist painted the picture while on the slopes of the Ridge - there is no more similar angle to be found. The question is - what happened to these structures in 15 years? Disappeared without a trace or turned into burial mounds?
It must be admitted that no Greek Necropolis, consisting of Scythian burial mounds, on the Tepe-Oba ridge NEVER EXISTED, on the ridge there were structures of a different nature, absolutely incompatible in their purpose with the City of the Dead.
But where, in this case, and when exactly was the archaeological expedition of Siberian-Aivazovsky carried out?
Indeed, in the vicinity of Feodosia there are a lot of incomprehensible heights that can be easily identified as burial mounds, only they are located mostly in the north and northeast of Feodosia, i.e. on the opposite side of Tepe-Oba. There are several hills, similar to mounds, to the south of the ridge, in the valley of Dvuyakornaya Bay, but these may well be the remains of fortifications.
In any case, in the vicinity of Feodosia for the period of the middle of the 19th century, there were quite a lot of interesting ancient monuments, which, I would venture to suggest, had not yet been plundered and desecrated.
Undoubtedly, a very rich profit awaited the archeologists-treasure hunters.
And here a very interesting moment arises. The age of many Crimean burial mounds in Crimea is about 2000 years and more. According to the official history, over these 2000 years dozens of tribes and peoples have passed through the Crimea, but for some reason no one had a desire to see what was stored in these same pyramid barrows up to the 19th century, when research and development of ancient monuments began … Therefore, it should be recognized that from time immemorial, only one people lived on the Crimean Peninsula - a descendant of the Tavro-Scythians - Russians, in any other case, all burial grounds and mounds would have been destroyed long before the 19th century. In the 19th century, the owner of the peninsula changed - it became part of the Russian Empire, which, despite its name, by no means represented the interests of the Russian people, rather the opposite. Therefore, without exception, all archaeological expeditions on the Crimean Peninsula pursued, by and large, only two goals - to destroy the monuments of the past of the Great People and, as much as possible, to enrich themselves as much as possible, having torn apart and appropriated the riches accumulating for thousands of years on the territories of the Tauride Peninsula.
Aivazovsky's Archaeological Expedition is no exception. It is enough to take a closer look at the personality of the chief archaeologist of the expedition, and also antiquary and numismatist - Sibirskiy AA, as well as the personalities of his patron friends J. Reichel, B. Kene, I. Bartolomei, P.-Yu. Sabatier. All these gentlemen, clearly not of Russian origin, are at the origins of the creation of the Imperial Archaeological Society, the curator of which was the House of Romanov itself. Naturally, all these people had the largest collections of jewelry and gold antique coins in Europe. I don't think it's worth proving where this wealth fell on their heads. This happened in the order of things - most of the looted jewelry and antiques simply remained in the hands of people,leading "archaeological searches" and then settled in numerous private collections, a smaller part went to museums.
By the way, I. Aivazovsky also had a fairly large jewelry collection, which after the artist's death in 1900 remained his widow - A. Burnazyan - Sarkisova. After the October Revolution, a real hunt was organized for the widow's collection, and since the power in Crimea changed several times a year, literally everyone hunted for Aivazovsky's jewelry collection - including the occupying Karaite-German government of Solomon Solomonovich Crimea, a former friend of I. Aivazovsky, and the White Guard "Black Baron" Wrangel, and the Chekists of Dzerzhinsky. The latter, I must say, have succeeded the most. A. Burnazyan was arrested by the Cheka and spent at least six months in prison, from which she left only after the jewelry collection was handed over to the new authorities.
It is possible that A. Burnazyan managed to preserve some part of the collection, since it is known that during the Great Patriotic War, some jewelry from the artist's collection somehow ended up with the Germans who occupied Feodosia. The further fate of the jewelry collection of I. Aivazovsky is unknown, for it came from the darkness, went into the darkness.