Eurasian Silver (eurasiansilver.com) is digital archive dedicated to the provenance and modern collecting histories of 3rd- to 13th-century silver discovered in hoards across the Eurasian continent.
I launched Eurasian Silver in 2020, but since then I have realized a need for a scalable content management system and stronger searches, sorts, and filters. Thus, in 2025 I began redesigning the information architecture of the site, and in 2026 I started to build the new website and migrate the data.
The corpus of 3rd- through 13th-century silver vessels is extraordinarily rich; however, only a handful of objects– most without provenance– in American or Western European collections are regularly researched and published, and furthermore, citations are too often limited to works in English, French or German. This imbalance is often the result of inaccessibility to materials held in collections across Eurasia or publications only available in Russian and other Slavic languages. Thus I envision this platform as a foundation from which future studies can jump by pooling together raw data on objects and essential bibliographies, as well as a network for communication between researchers, curators, archivists, and librarians. This project runs in dialogue with the current work of Arkadii Baulo, Tat'iana Chichko, and Natal’ia Fedorova, whose research investigates the movement and later lives of Eurasian silver vessels. It builds on the foundational knowledge established in the first half of the 20th century by Valerii Chernetsov, Iakov Smirnov, Kamilla Trever, and the rigorous studies undertaken in the second half of the 20th century by Vladislav Darkevich, Boris Marshak, and Vasilii Leshchenko.