GOCHEVO CEMETERY AS STUDIED BY D. YA. SAMOKVASOV (BASED ON THE MATERIALS FROM THE SCHOLARLY ARCHIVE OF IHMC RAS)
In 1909 professor D. Ya. Samokvasov conducted excavations of the Gochevo barrow cemetery and studied 278 mounds. The collection obtained as a result of that work was later distributed between a number of museums and partly lost, no complete publication of the materials is available. The “Atlas of Gochevo antiquities” published after Samokvasov’s death is not the only source of information about his research. The paper deals with archive materials stored in IHMC RAS, including the correspondence between Samokvasov and Imperial Archaeological Commission, and unpublished first part of his manuscript devoted to the Gochevo barrows and containing an inventory list and photographs of finds.