RUSSIAN RULER’S TOMB
PLUNDERED YEARS AOO
KIEV. U.S.S.R., 'Feb. I
A mystery dating back perhaps 900 years# came to light to-dav when a Soviet inspection committee opened the sarcophagus of King Yaroslav! the Wise, first King of Kiev, who died in- the vear 1054 A.D,
Disjointed skeletons of two persons, in,stead of one, were found in the sarcophagus—apparently a man and a woman. Neither was identified, but the condition of tile coffin indicated that it had been plundered, probably in the dim past. "All the finery supposed to have been buried with Ynrosl,ayl was missing.
The King’s wife is buried at. Novgorod, some distance’from Kiev.' The monarch’s sarcophagus has been left for-many years in,-the Kiev Cathedral.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18961, 11 March 1936, Page 13
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