Pages: 239-258 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp226239258

The article examines the evolution of the Cossacks’ ideas about hoards in the territories of their traditional residence — Zaporozhye, Don, Kuban. The history of hoards is inscribed in the space of traditional activities of the Cossack communities, accompanied by the accumulation of material values, including money. The authors reveal the forms and degree of participation of the Don and Black Sea (Kuban) Cossacks in unauthorized (predatory) excavations of numerous antiquities of the south of the Russian Empire of the 19 ^th— early 20 ^th centuries, including hoard hunting, and identified the factors that determined the transformation of the cultural memory of the Cossacks about the hoards in the specified period.

Keywords: Don, Zaporozhye, history of archeology, Cossacks, treasures, Kuban, mounds, excavations

Information about authors:

Vladimir Milchev (Wuhu, CPR – Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine). Doctor Habilitat of History, Professor. Zaporizhia National University. Zhukovsky St., 66, Zaporizhia, 69000, Ukraine; Center for Research of Regions “Volga-Dnieper” under the Ministry of Education of China, Anhui normal university. Jiuhuanan St., 189, Wuhu, China
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0003-4432-3322
Dmitry Sen’ (Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation). Doctor Habilitat of History. Southern Federal University. Bolshaya Sadovaya St., 105/42, Rostov-on-Don, 344006, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-5222-4685