 to present you the first results of our big project. It's a project of State Historical Museum of Moscow, Russia, and the biggest institute, nuclear institute of our country, Kurchatov Institute. It's a first presentation of our results. It would not be an overstatement that the Burial Mount Chernaya Magyla, Black Mount, situated in the town of Chernigov, is one of the most famous sites of the old Russian state formation period dated to the 9th, 11th century. Professor Dmitry Samakuasa, one of the pioneering researchers of Slavonic antiquities in Russian Empire, excavated the pagan burial in 1872-73. The mount was of considerable size, reaching 40 meters in diameter and 11 meters in height. The monumental burial contained a cremation of presumably two male and one female individuals. The lavish grave goods comprised hundreds of varied artifacts, including silver, adorned raitons, weaponry, two helmets, two pieces of chainmail armor, two swords, two sabers, spearheads, arrowheads, and idol, a copper figurine of store. They gained massive public attention since the artifacts were frequently presented at various exhibitions. As early as 1874, the burial goods were exhibited during the first Russian archaeological congress in Kiev. This was the beginning of the collection's journey. The complex was then presented at the University of Warsaw when Professor Samakuasa held courses. The artifacts from the elite burial were even included in the Russian Empire's exposition during the World War in Paris in 1878. They finally impressed the public to the point that information on the Chornay-Magila Mount as one of the world's wonders was included in the encyclopedia La Nouvelle Géographie universelle la terre résumme by elite recluse. Moreover, British museum executives offered Samakuasa to buy out his collection. In 1879, the finds were displayed at the archaeological exhibition in Moscow. Finally, in 1891, Samakuasa donated his entire collection of antiquities to the Russian historical museum in Moscow. Then forth, the burial goods from the Chornay-Magila Mount became the trademark of the museum's medieval collection and have never since left its permanent exposition. I tried my best. Regrettably, the notion of collections' integrity at the time was still not generally accepted as the principle of cultural heritage. Therefore, the Chornay-Magila complex lacked entirety when added to the historical museum collection. For instance, some artifacts were given to St. Vladimir University in Kiev already in 1874. A monolith section of the funeral pyre was pasted to the Chornay-Magila Scientific Equival Commission's museum. Some doubles ended up in private collections. Nowadays, artifacts from Chornay-Magila complex beyond the historical museum collections are unidentifiable. Some artifacts are lost. Others probably lost provenance during the wars and revolution during the 20th century. Grieve goods from Chornay-Magila and other remarkable old-ruse burials excavated in the end of the 19th century made a great impact on the Russian society, sparking interest among contemporary for the initial pagan period of national history. Weaponry and armor from Chornay-Magila became bases for reconstruction of the looks of old-ruse prints and his retinue. These images migrated from historical literature to monumental painting and folk-stale books illustrations. Surprisingly enough, the complex uniqueness and fame led to little new research being made. As our latest research shows, some artifacts underwent through barbaric restoration of the mid-20th century that tempered with the initial shape of the finds. The latest research of the Chornay-Magila collection using modern scientific methods began in 2017 with the support of the Russian Science Foundation. A preliminary investigation of the well-known artifacts led to some unexpected results. The first object to be studied was a poorly preserved spearhead with claws inlaid on both sides of its blade. It's a unique artifact whose ornamentation, some scholars argue, belongs not just to the pagan tradition strengthening the weapon, but could signify its wilder was familiar with Christianity. Its retomography revealed that the famous spearhead was constructed by restorers from three different artifacts. Two spearheads and another strange object with scalloped edges that couldn't possibly be part of a spear of any other weapon. The scalloped-edged object was separated from the rest and partially cleaned of corrosion products, thus revealing it was inlaid with a steel wire and mounted with decorative parts which purpose eluded it. The second object that underwent research was a knife interpreted as a socks. This artifact also turned out to have been wrongly assembled by restorers from three fragments. A complex of visualization techniques was used including synchrotronius and neutronius introscopy and tomography x-ray computer tomography by specialists of National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute. To our surprise, the visualization revealed the following. The extreme fragment of the socks that scalloped edges and had ornamental inlaid pattern. Traces of silver wire remained only as several dots on the surface probably due to exposure to high temperature from the funeral pyre. The main part of the socks also had scalloped edges. Thus, the battle knife interpretation was ruled out. No ornament was discovered. Instead, the visualization revealed a complex structure of the handle with two polyadral knots. The ornamental pattern of the scalloped object previously attached to the spear was identical with the extreme fragment of the socks. Its decorative mounts had been actually used to wear the object with head being broken into halves. The breaking line can be seen here. Finally, the extremity of the object enlies the existence of a handle. To sum up, the two ornamented fragments were wrongly attached to the spearhead and knife for a single scalloped edged object. The main part of the knife also turned out to be a similar scalloped edged bar with a handle but without an ornamentation. Let's address the problem of interpretation of rebuilt objects. The ornamentation pattern and design of the eddy fox leaves little doubt in these Canadian provenance. This geometrical ornamentation comprised of interwoven stripes and interleasant knots, one of the main features of the decorative metalwork of Viking period. It could probably be assigned to the immanent style dated to the second half of the 10th century. The second feature, inferring notan design, is the handle with polyhedral knots. Such decoration of iron tools, scissors, keys and others with bronze knobs is typical of Scandinavian craftsmanship of the Viking Age. Instead, the knobs are made of iron from the same bar. The scalloped edged bars have no known analogy nor do they have any apparent utilitarian value. Whereas the intrinsic value is evidenced by the fact that the broken artifact underwent thorough repair, which implies it had some purpose. We can at this point formulate a hypothesis that these artifacts from the Chornemagilla complex could be identified as barbarian scepters. The term was first proposed by scholars investigating the Saturn Hoop ship burial dating to the 7th century AD. Describing a long, wet stone covered with human faces on each side and a ring mount topped by a bronze stack figurine. The scholars argued that the tradition of using scepters as a royal insignia was inherited from the late Roman period. Sources of later use of scepter barbarian chieftains during the Merovingian period as card. Instead, the Carolingian period offers some pictorial evidence. From the 11th century, scepter became commonly used and, for example, Edward the Confessor and Harald, a peer holding different scepters in the myotepistry. All the mentioned above scepters have little in common in desire, but supposedly this insignia depended greatly on the tribal perception and dynastical beliefs of the barbaric periphery of Europe. Magical features of the Chornemagilla scepter may not be ruled out either. It is worth mentioning that such features are ascribed to another type of rare non-functional finds. Big iron staffs adorned with polyadronops found mostly in white-engaged female burial. Nail-price gathered an extensive catalog of these objects and regarded them as medical staffs of sorcery and, at the same time, indicating high social rank. The Chornemagilla burial is a paired burial of two men in Adonistan who were cremated there, probably accompanied by one or several women. They presented research and unveiled two unique artifacts which presumably could have been dynastical insignia. The repaired scepter with the inlet ornamentation could have been a generic patrimonial attribute, whereas the second one, a humbler imitation of local crafty. The third examination of one of the oldest and most remarkable collections of state historical museum unveiled the complicated story behind the Chornemagilla complex. The lack of the collection's integrity was due to the undeveloped precept of cultural heritage in the late 19th century. The challenging history of the 20th century resulted in utter oblivion of traces of the Chornemagilla grave goods kept beyond the historical museum. The complex prominence and constant exhibition led to little new research into its composition. The use of modern scientific methods applied to the edifarchs revealed many restoration errors that tempered with the initial shape of the finds. The research resulted in the discovery of previously unknown type of artifact, presumably barbarian scepters, which inferred even more significance, maybe princely, statues of the buried men. Thank you.