Onfim, who scrawled his name on his entertaining sketches, doodled on more than a dozen thin pieces of birch bark in the mid-13th century, and his artistic talent was preserved for centuries by the ...

Yanin’s areas of interest included medieval Novgorod history, archaeology, and source study, research of birch bark letters MOSCOW, February 2. /TASS/. Valentin Yanin, a member of the Russian ...