Heard: the proposal of the Mr. Administrator of the Kyiv Educational District, dated September 21, 1876, No. 9938, to the University Council, from which it is clear that the Mr. Administrator of the Ministry of Public Education, Prince Shirinsky-Shikhmatov, on September 3rd of this year, allowed the addition of the first § of the Charter. Nestor Society years. in words: “it is part of the Imperial University of St. Vladimir”; To support the petition in the case of assigning an annual allowance to the Society, the Manager of the Ministry requires information about the activities of the Society during its existence. We determined: to present the necessary information as quickly as possible.
D. member A.F. Andriyashev read a note “about the ancient tract of Kyiv - Kopyrev end.”
At the meeting of the Nestor Society, which took place on October 31, 1876, the following issues were considered:
1) We heard: the attitude of the rector of the K.D. Academy, Bishop Filaret, about his consent to accept the title of honorary member of the society. I Defined: take note.
2) Listened to: the attitude of the preliminary committee of the 4th Archaeological Congress, dated October 11. for No. 78, with an invitation to participate in the classes of the future congress, and with the attachment of a brochure by Prof. Brickner, which contains the publication program: “Source studies of Russian history.” It was decided: to notify the preliminary committee of the agreement of the Nestor Society to take part in the archaeological congress; brochure by prof. Brikner to be handed over to the members of the Society.
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3) Listened to: F.A. Terpovsky’s statement about his completion of preliminary work for the publication of a Slavic manuscript of the 12th century, containing “the life of Theodore the Studite” - and the Greek original of this life. Determined: to keep in mind when publishing the works of the Nestor Society.
At the same meeting, Dr. V. B. Antonovich read the message “about finds and excavations in the Kyiv province in 1876.” The referent reported on four excavations and finds in Kyiv (in the Baggovut estate near Kirillovsky, in the Marr estate, near the Jordan Church, in the estates of Leskov and Tchaikovsky) and about seven outside Kyiv (in Romanovka, Zalivak - near Smela, in Samgorodka, in Kitaev, between Yablunov and Gamarneya, between Gamarneya and Kononcha, in Kanev and on the banks of Tykich). Moving on to general conclusions, the referent found that the results of excavations within the Kyiv province can be divided into four groups: 1) relating to the ancient era of the Metal Age with remains of the Stone Age. Characteristics of this group: no signs of burning, skeletons in groups; stone tools, rarely bronze objects; two types of pottery, made on a wheel and without a wheel, millstones. 2) Belonging to the purely Bronze Age. Characteristics of this group: elegant bronze items - the beginning of traces of burial through burning. 3) Related to the Iron Age. Characteristics of this group: burning of corpses, horse bones; a lot of all property burned with the deceased; Byzantine coins, Anid dirhems. 4) Belonging to the so-called Scythian era. Characteristics of this era: traces of burning and burial together; bronze items, gold jewelry with images of griffins; terracotta.
November 21, 1876, at a meeting of the Nestor Chronicler Society, Dr. M. F. Vladimirsky-Budanov made a report on op. Patman: “History of codification”: “about the dependence of the legislation of the Moscow State on the Lithuanian-Russian legislation.” Having reviewed the Russian scientific and legal literature regarding the “Law of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich” and focusing with special attention on the work of the southern Russian lawyer of the 18th century. “The agreement of the book of the Statute of Little Russian Rights with the State Russian Code,” the referent was convinced that, although everyone knows that Uloin 1873-77