Nikolay A. Makarov*, Leonid A. Belyaev**, Vladimir S. Kurmanovsky***

Institute of Archaeology R AS, Moscow, Russia

*E-mail: nmakarov10@yandex.ru
**E-mail: labeliaev@bk.ru
***E-mail: kurmanovskiy@mail.ru

Keywords: sarcophagi, tombstones, epigraphy, cemetery, Moscow State, Kremlin, the Miracle of Archangel Michael in Chonae monastery.

The article publishes stone burial structures discovered during excavations of the Institute of Archaeology RAS (2015–2017) in the cemetery area of the Miracle of Archangel Michael in Chonae monastery (Chudov) in the Moscow Kremlin. One of the oldest and most famous, this monastery was completely destroyed in the 1930s. Its necropolis has never been studied at site. All sarcophagi belong to the Moscow type of anthropomorphic stone coffins: trapezoid and with round headband of the 16th century. Tombstones date back more widely – from the late 14th to the first half of the 17th century. Among the inscriptions, there is a unique one that uses the death reference wording “for the Tsar and all Orthodox Christians” during the siege of Paida fortress in 1572–1573 in the course of the Livonian War. Other texts name monastic servants and court nobility of the 17th century.

DOI: 10.31857/S086960630005449-2