Graffiti from the Annunciation Church at Gorodische. Preliminary review
The paper offers the first publication of 33 graffiti inscriptions from the excavations of the 1103 Annunciation Church at Gorodische. This complex includes a large 1138 inscription about the death of prince Vsevolod Mstislavich, confirming the early construction date of the Pskov Trinity Cathedral, where he was buried; the records of the deaths of princesses and local priests; wine and incense purchase records for church needs; a one-of-a-kind hymn dedicated to the feast of Mid-Pentecost; a Glagolitic alphabet with a Cyrillic letter ft - "djerv", confirming the early origins of this letter; and a Glagolitic prayer, textually linked with the prayer at the very end of Vladimir Monomakh's Instruction.