VMs: I asked historians of soviet era about unidentified documents

[Mart Vabar <mesinik@xxxxxx>]

And got something to speculate with:

20 years ago or so it was told, in Novgorod there are found some old documents 
written on peeled birch bark, some of which was not understandable. These might 
be in some Finno-Ugric language - Russians do not have problems with similar 
early Scandinavian or Slavic documents, afaik. Btw, I believe, Novgorod (with 
its tolerance and relative democracy) was the only place, where such a 
Voynich-book could "live" (i.e. be used) up to AD1400 or even more. But since 
the Voynich-plants are probably more southern, it could not be created there.

Also in soviet years, there was a rumor about a scientist in Ukraine, named 
Tkachenko, who probably had evidence about "heretic" texts or icons in early 
centuries of Christianity in Kiev-Rus. Maybe Mr.Stojko knows better?

Mart

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