Pereshchepina Treasure

The Pereshchepina Treasure (Russian: Перещепинский клад, Ukrainian: Перещепинський скарб) is a major deposit of Bulgar and Khazar objects from the Migration Period.

The most valuable items are the sword of Kubrat, a gift from Emperor Heraclius and the ring with the monogram of the ruler, as a "patrician", that is, as the savior of the New (Christian) Rome.

The hoard, first described by Makarenko, was extracted under the supervision of Count Aleksey Bobrinsky, a renowned archaeologist, who published its description in 1914.

Although the Great Soviet Encyclopaedia was keen to ascribe the hoard to a "Slavic chieftain" who supposedly pillaged the objects during "a raid against Byzantium," and while, more recently, some scholars attempt to attribute it to the Khazars, many agree that the hoard represents, at least in its earlier phase, the treasure of Kubrat, the first attested khan of the Bulgars.

The Pereshchepina hoard ranks among the most vivid manifestations of the typical ancient material culture of Old Great Bulgaria.