This story has been circulating on the Internet for several years and it is difficult to find out where it came from, from a story from social networks or from a book of some researcher of anomalous phenomena. Nevertheless, the story is rather atypical, even on the subject of time travel.
The story tells about a certain Andrei Maksimenko and his friend Yegor Begunov, both of whom have been studying in the historical reconstruction club for many years. They visited many places of former battles, where they participated in reconstructed battles. That unusual event happened to them in Kazakhstan. Their group was invited by Kazakh reenactors, a battle of the Slavs and nomads was planned.
The place for the game was chosen simply in the steppe, where no one would interfere. Before the battle began, Andrei and Yegor decided to take a walk around the neighborhood. It cannot be said that they have gone so far from the camp. But soon it seemed to them that they had lost their way and found themselves somewhere else entirely.
The fact is that before that they walked along the green steppe, but now there was burnt grass everywhere. The previously clear sky was all covered with heavy clouds that swept with great speed. It seemed like it was about to rain.
The guys decided to turn back, when they noticed that a group of horsemen was going straight to them. Deciding that these were people from their own group, they decided to wait for them. Soon the riders approached and surrounded the guys in a tight ring.
They were dressed like nomads and spoke to each other in an incomprehensible language. Andrey decided that the guys from the Kazakh team decided to play them. True, it was not clear when they all suddenly managed to shave their heads and grow a lonely and long tail on the back of their heads, like the Zaporozhye Cossacks.
And Andrey told them in Russian that they did it well, as if they had prepared for the film. But the riders seemed to understand nothing and continued to shout something in their own language. One even swung and hit him with a quiver (whip, whip).
Then both guys decided that the joke was going too far. Swearing, they got into a fight. Yegor managed to pull one of the riders off the saddle and even snatch the kamcha from his hands. This finally pissed off the riders, and they grabbed their sabers.
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Yegor felt a blow in the back, and immediately the earth began to spin under his feet.
They both lay on the green grass, and above them there was a clear and high Kazakh sky. Where the clouds and scorched grass had gone was not clear. The friends looked at each other. Yegor had large cuts on his jacket and shirt, as if from a blow from a saber. But he himself was not hurt at all. And in his hands he held a kamcha.
It was this very kamcha that he decided to present to the Kazakh team. Of course, it’s strange that the grass and the sky suddenly changed so much, but all the same, it’s too much to wave with your sabers.
Alas, the people from the Kazakh team had an iron alibi. All of them drank amicably with the Russian team, and no one was absent anywhere even for ten minutes. On the contrary, the very story of Andrey and Yegor was perceived by the Kazakhs as a joke. Only the kamcha, presented to the public as a fact of the attack, was a sufficient argument to end the disputes.
It was examined very carefully and it was admitted that no one had such a kamcha. It was immediately attributed to the typical Kamcha of the Usun period, that is, it looked as if it had been made fifteen hundred years ago. But at the same time it looked quite new.
Of course, the guys were immediately asked how the riders were dressed and how they were armed. According to the description, they looked like the Usun nomads. And the Russian guys did not understand at all either in the ammunition of the nomads, or in their weapons, or in the history of Kazakhstan. So that the rally on their part was excluded.
Of course, they could have been attacked by some other group of fans of historical reconstruction, just to play a trick on the Russians. And this, too, was quickly checked. Alas, this fact was also not confirmed.
There is only one plausible explanation - Andrei and Yegor made a trip into the past. And they not only did, but got themselves a souvenir there. We can say that they were mined at the risk of their lives.
