Soldatenkova V.V. “Archeologusha” and More

Abstract: The author dedicates this memorial article to her mother – Nataliya Vadimovna Ryndina. The article describes three memories from the time when N. V. Ryndina was not yet a professor and worked as an ordinary lecturer at the MSU History Department. The author shares her first impressions of her mother’s unusual profession and of that profession’s attributes. She also recounts how N. V. Ryndina prepared for her lectures and of the family’s life in Moscow during winter and at their dacha during summer vacations. The author describes her childhood impressions of the university and her first visit to the Section of Archaeology. The author recalls trips to Moldavia and Ukraine, where N. V. Ryndina directed the summer student practice in the Trypillian archaeological expedition. N. V. Ryndina’s Moldavian colleague Vsevolod Ivanovich Markevich is also remembered, as well as his culinary experiments and thoughts on the difficulties the archaeological profession faces. The article describes the work during excavations, the facts concerning the cleaning of the Trypillian monuments and the particularities of conducting breaks during excavations. The author allocates particular attention to the fundamental features of the crucial factor in the Trypillian expedition – Moldavia’s wilderness.

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