Kievan Rus' ornament

Interest in ornamental patterns and the peculiarities of their manifestation in Kievan Rus' culture appeared only towards the end of the 19th century.

Also, Schepkin formulated a mechanism for creating compositions from individual elements, in which the combination of motifs in the ornament occurs on the basis of the instincts of symmetry and rhythm.

Among these swords, the following stand out: Since the 12th century, sabers have become widespread, which were forged from carburized iron blanks, after which they were repeatedly hardened using a particularly complex technology, resulting in a product with the hardest blade.

On the front side of the ax there is an image of a pierced snake in the form of the Cyrillic letter “a”, according to Kirpichnikov, corresponding to the content of Kievan Rus' bylines.

Among the decorations of the personal attire of the Kievan Rus' population, the ornamental pattern was present more often than on weapons, eventually evolving into the so-called animal style.

The matte black background sets off with the brilliance of the figures left in silver and the soft gilding of the borders.

The Russian paleographer Vyacheslav Shchepkin was the first to combine the ornamentation of Old East Slavic handwritten collections (marginal and capital decorations, capital letters of the first page of the “letter cap”) with the term floral ornament, the main element of which is a branch.

Even at the beginning of the 20th century, Nikodim Kondakov noted the similarity of the ornamentation of the oldest Kievan Rus' miniatures with cloisonné enamel.

Scientists conduct several more remote anologies to the antiquities of Lutomersk with Kievan Rus' burials: distributors for belts with an ornament of bear heads, similar to those found in the village of Spasskoye, Kaminsky province, over the Omiya River (between the upper reaches of the Ob and Irtysh),[3] as well as in the village of Kynovska and in the Perm region above the upper Kama.

According to the assumption of Konrad Yazhzhevsky, which arose in the North Slavic environment and later spread among the Varangians-Rus, this burial rite came to Poland during the time of Boleslav the Brave, during the years of military clashes (1013, 1018 or 1019), when a small group of influential political emigrants (outcasts) from Kievan Rus, together with a group of warriors, among whom were the Slavized Varangians, found refuge here, and was planted "for fodder" away from the borders of the state.

Numerous things fall into this category, such as carved bone ornamented combs, specific ceramics (perhaps even the production of pottery forms of Slavic origin in Sweden); certain types of weapons are made.