Fabrics with Christian symbols of the costume of the Golden Horde nobles
Dode Z.V.

Institute of Socio-Economic and Human Research of the Southern Scientific Center of Russian Academy of Sciences, Rostov-on-Don (zvezdana_dode@yahoo.com)

Key words: Mongolian Empire, Golden Horde, sacral symbols, costume, archaeological textile, church fabrics, Old Rus embroidery, nomads.

Precious church fabrics seized by nomads as trophies became the details of costumes if used secondarily. Regardless of the purposes of their secular use there were motives determined pagans attitudes to the alien sacral symbols from their adoption or indifference to their total desacralisation. The article discusses the costume makers’ motivation that used church fabrics with embroidered Christian symbols discovered in Mongolian burial Guva 2 (Kalmykia) and medieval vault Korotoh (Chechnya). The materials from the burial mound Chingul (the Ukraine) are involved as the historical parallel. The finds have been considered as of one historical location in the frames of Mongolian Empire.