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The Pereshchepina Treasure

7th c. · found 1912, Mala Pereshchepyna, near Poltava, Ukraine
RECOVERED
Evidence status: Historical tradition. no documented source (historical tradition); legal status unknown (manual verification recommended). This account is presented as historical tradition, not verified fact. Manual verification recommended. Repository evidence: 0 sources · 0 timeline events · 0 media items · legal unknown · view on the Map Evidence on file: historical tradition

The Pereshchepina Treasure: still unexplained.

The grave-treasure of Kubrat, first khan of the Bulgars

The law of this ground: Held in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
The subject
developing the photograph…
The manifest
The grave-treasure of Kubrat, first khan of the Bulgars
The account

A shepherd boy near Poltava put his foot through the ground in 1912 and fell, the tale runs, into a hoard of gold and silver, vessels, weapons, and rings of the Migration Period, believed to be the burial treasure of Kubrat, the founding khan of Old Great Bulgaria. Seal-rings bearing his name turned a field accident into a lost king's grave.

How it was found
  • A shepherd boy near Poltava in 1912 stepped on gold poking out of the ground, which unspooled into a vast early-medieval hoard tied to a steppe khan.
What the record holds

What remains open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
What we know, and what we don't
Established

No documentary claim is yet established. The account rests on tradition.

Still open
  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
The evidence room

No documentary or visual exhibits have been located yet. The trail below and the open leads are where this dossier grows next — every exhibit that enters here carries a source.

Where the trail points now
  • Search Library of Congress + DPLA (IIIF) for period cartography of the site.
  • Run Chronicling America for dated newspaper mentions.
  • Query NARA for archival records tied to the site.

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Sources and the record
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Context, not proof. The dossier's own sources remain the evidence record.

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Chart position 49.300°, 34.620° (approx.) View on the Map