A group of scientists led by Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexandra Petrovna Buzhilova, working in the funds of the Research Institute and the Museum of Anthropology of Moscow State University, accidentally discovered the golden cover of the crayfish of one of the founders of the Solovetsky Monastery - the Monk Zosima. National Geographic Russia magazine spoke about the unexpected discovery. An Orthodox relic was found at the bottom of a wooden box containing an ancient Egyptian mummy. When the scientists unrolled the canvas, they saw the face of the saint, skillfully woven with a golden thread. The preservation of the cover is excellent, which made it possible to easily make out the Church Slavonic letters: 'Venerable Zosima'. It is interesting that on the box itself there is an inscription 'Materials from the Solovetsky Monastery.' It was transferred to Moscow State University in 1948 during the dissolution of the Central Anti-Religious Museum, where in the thirties of the last century church utensils and even the relics of saints were brought from all over the country. It was here that the relics of the Monk Zosima himself came in due time: according to the museum classification, their inventory number is only three units different from the number of the found cover of the crayfish. The relics of one of the founders of the Solovetsky Monastery were returned to the holy monastery in 1990. The now found gold-woven cover from his crayfish, which experts tentatively date to the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century, will also go there.
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