svitlana grinchenko traveled a thousand kilometers for one thing. wants to return the history of her father and find his archaeological finds. swords from the dnieper. we are going to kharkiv to check the version about the train with museum exhibits that was bombed in in this area, if the artifacts were saved, they could end up in the kharkiv historical museum, this is the only clue that we have, i have only one letter left from that time. in general, i am so impressed, so glad that at least some such moments remained reflecting this one all the time, no, he never wrote or just the whole wall comes out, no one wrote anything to anyone, he returned from exile, but he came back very sick, very sick with a heart, but i was in a pioneer camp at that time and so i didn't see my father, but he left for poltava very quickly and very quickly died there in the hospital, we often visit him at his grave, this is a very painful question, very painful, i don't know where his grave is, this is my cross, i have a question that i have it always hurts, it always hur

what happened to them, it turns out that the further fate of these finds is unknown unknown svitlana grinchenkod this story because she saw it in in the news, there is a story about smugglers who were detained on the border of estonia and russia, they tried to bring out an ancient sword that comes from ukraine, what do you want to find out about, i want this sword they found to be in the album from the collection of my father or not this is the business of our family, we, you understand me if i lived all the time and all my life with the memory of my father, i want his name to remain in history he wrote me a will, what to say to her today on her birthday, dear dear to my unknown donetsk vision, to my truly holy child, will you realize the depth of suffering with your childlike, innocent soul, your father's love and the soul of his torment, and if only for a moment, will you live only with me? the only thing i pray for is that you do not lose the name of a person on the path of life. and despite the fact that i was only four months old when my father was taken from me, i carried my love for him

found five swords, just one of them a little later, that is why it is not in the photos from svitlana grinchenko's album, god, is this the sword that was found my father can't be anything else. especially since we also have the year of finding this ball in our records and can i hold it in my hands. of course i can. it's something fantastic. it's interesting that this sword has been preserved. and that's what. well , the whole collection got here to the museum. and where then we could come up with the remaining four, unfortunately, the information is more detailed and we don't have the balls specifically for this one. that is, this is the only sword that remains in our collection, but there may be them somewhere in ukraine, i think so, but it is necessary to conduct research in this museum, we learned about the fact that during the war all the exhibits were evacuated to the east in russia, one of the echelons was bombed in the kharkov region, valuable finds were scattered within a radius of several kilometers , some of them were looted, some were able to collect and hastily take to the nearest muse

the archaeologist volodymyr grinchenko, found swords of the kyivan rus era, after these excavations, he was repressed, like most of the participants, we go with ms. svitlana to the restoration center of the ministry of culture , we managed to establish that the sword was recovered from smugglers that the woman saw in the news is located right there. we agreed to meet with restoration artist viktor golub to find out if this sword could be one of the balls from the excavations near the dniproges of my father in the album there was such a photo such a photo with swords or could it be this sword is exactly one of those photographed here, it is very similar to one of these balls , similar in type and proportions, similar in decoration technique, this ball is decorated with light, and ours, this match, which is currently in restoration, is also decorated like this the technique and the holes are also similar, you can look now under a microscope and see how fine this work is, it's beautiful, a scandinavian braid was recently discovered on this sword , there is also a thread on this sword, but there are differences in the drawing, the drawing is different, do you