The Region of Exciting Mysteries

     Everything that is covered by the curtain of time contains a lot of mysteries. The scientific methods allow learning many things but the well-taken hypotheses often mutually alternative and give us an option: to agree or deny some or other version. The unsolved mystery heats imagination and adds more fascination to beautiful ancient Ladoga.

     How do the treasure-troves of the ancient silver coins got to the land of Ladoga (merely in 1874 and in 1875 near the village Knyaschina the peasants ploughed three of such treasure-troves); who is prince Ruirik and where is the grave of Oleg the Oracular? The scientists and the fans of mysteries argue about these secrets and many others. The citizens of Old Ladoga hand down from one generation to another the legend about the gold sarcophagus of Riurik. How many boys ransack the caves of Old Ladoga in search of the lair of the legendary prince! Is there a conduit leading from the old fortress to a catacomb stretching under Old Ladoga on the huge area? Where should be found the silver lost by the Swedish general Jakob Delagardi in spring of 1617 when he left Old Ladoga together with his army according to the conditions of Stolbovsky treaty.

     “This mystery is great”, - people said in ancient times. We would like to inform you about the hypotheses that aid to take efforts to explain the unexplainable and to prove the things incapable to prove.