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Friday, 23 January 2015 18:36

Embroidered Fragments from Smela, Kiev (Ukraine)

There is a passing reference to a small group of embroidered fragments found in a man’s grave in Smela, near Kiev. The excavations were published by Count Alexey Alexandrovich Bobrinskoi (1852-1927) in 1887.