The Miracle of St. Nicholas of Myra about a Cuman and the Pereyaslavlʹ Buried Treasure of 1912
The stamped silver medallion with St. Nicholas's image from the Pereyaslavl' buried treasure of 1912 is considered in this article as a kind of archaeological “illustration” of the Mira-cle about a Cuman. This medieval Russian narration is dated by the late 11th - early 12th centu-ries and shows the beginning of the spread of the cult of St. Nicholas into Cuman religious be-liefs. The Pereyaslavlʹ buried treasure of 1912 was interpreted as a deposit of the military tro-phies of an unknown Cuman. St. Nicholas's image was cut out from a stamped silver frame of an icon and was affixed to some secondary wooden base, for which purpose 10 holes for small nails were made on the edge of the medallion. Such careful affixing does not correspond to other cas-es of secondary use of such images and thus it can only indicate a special attitude of the owner to this medallion.