Baturyn Burials

August 28, 2004, Baturyn city, Chernihiv region.

A plot dedicated to the excavations and research of burials in the city of Baturyn.

On the video: landscapes of Baturyn; excavations, burials, archaeologists at work; funeral of those killed in the Baturyn massacre.

Commented by the head of the Department of History and Archaeology of Ukraine at the Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko Chernihiv National Pedagogical University, Ukrainian archaeologist Volodymyr Kovalenko, and archaeologist, executive director of the International Archaeological Expedition conducting archaeological research in the city of Baturyn, Volodymyr Mezentsev.

Created by: Lyudmila Spivak, Rostyslav Mosienko, Oleksandr Harpusha.

Reference: The Baturyn massacre was a bloody punitive action by Moscow troops on November 2, 1708, during which the large population of Baturyn, the capital of Hetman Mazepa, was destroyed. The troops slaughtered and burned the city's inhabitants, regardless of age and gender, and also looted and burned the city, destroying Orthodox churches. From 11 to 15 thousand people died, among whom women, children and the elderly predominated. Archaeological excavations or numerous burials of the victims have been discovered, where many of them were buried without Christian rites.