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Легенда уверяет, что Соломония спасла его, отдав сына верным людям и пустив слух, что ребенок умер, инсценировала его «погребение». Это народное предание, казавшееся занятной выдумкой, нашло неожиданное археологическое подтверждение.
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Rumours reached Moscow that Solomonia-Sophia gave birth to a son in the Convent and named him Georgy. Investigation was urgently started. Death threatened the baby. According to legend, Solomonia saved him. She gave her son to some faithful people and spread a rumour that he was dead. She even faked his "burial". This legend, quite an interesting fable, was unexpectedly confirmed archaeologically. In 1934, a burial vault in the basement of the Intercession Convent was dismantled. A small white-stone tomb of the 16th century was found near the Solomonia's shrine. A decomposed bundle of rags, which was evidently a neatly made doll dressed in an expensive silk shirt and wrapped in swaddling clothes embroidered with pearls, was found in a small wooden coffin... Such is a gloomy page in the history of "the Russian tsars and tsarinas' life" that was connected with the Intercession Convent. For an obvious reason, Ivan the Terrible, son of Vasily III and Yelena Glinskaya, was interested in this story too. He demanded archival documents relating to the case of the Solomonia's "barrenness", which disappeared afterwards.
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