For many years there has been a discussion about whether the Tisul princess, allegedly lying in a marble sarcophagus for 800 million years, which half a century ago found in the Kuzbass local miners at a depth of 70 meters, or whether it is a beautiful myth, for many years overgrown with a pile of fiction, conjecture and speculation. In our publication we will try to shed light on some facts of this incredible story, which so excites the minds of contemporaries and, which still has a big question mark....

This event, which occurred more than half a century ago, many people do not give rest even today. Although to get to the truth because of the statute of limitations every year becomes more and more difficult. The mystery of the Tisulskoe discovery during this time tried to solve a huge number of people. This topic was also touched upon in 2013 by Ren TV and in 2019 by Andrei Malakhov in a TV program, where the editors tried to put together all the known evidence again.

And it all started in 2002 with the resonance caused by a sensational publication about a classified artifact called “The Lady Who Is 800 Million Years Old”. The author of the article, which appeared in the Abakan newspaper “Khakasia” and 124 issue of Zlatoust newspaper “Arkaim”, was journalist Oleg Kulishkin. In it he recounted a conversation with a random compartment companion - a former KGB colonel, who told the journalist an incredible story, which was more like the plot of some fantastic movie about aliens.

So, let's go through it all in order.

At the beginning of September 1969 in the village of Rzhavchik, Tisulskogo district, Kemerovo region, in a coal mine at a depth of 70 meters, one of the miners came across something resembling a monolithic stone object of large dimensions. As soon as the strange find was pulled out of the rock layer, it became clear to everyone that it was a two-meter marble sarcophagus.

The shift supervisor instructed to suspend work in the face and to raise the find to the surface. Assuming that there might be treasure inside, the workers began to unscrew the petrified putty that had firmly glued the sarcophagus lid to its base. The midday sun came to the aid of the workers and heated the marble. From the heat, the putty that held the two halves of the sarcophagus firmly together gradually melted and flowed. Eyewitnesses said that one of the workers secretly tasted the liquid. Later, curiosity cost the poor fellow his life: not a few weeks later, he went mad, and in winter he was found frozen on the doorstep of his own house. (Later the village said that he was the first victim of the curse of the Tisul princess).

Then the miracles began. When the lid of the sarcophagus was removed, everyone saw that it was filled to the very top with a transparent pink-blueish liquid, in which was immersed an unusually beautiful woman in her thirties, with correct European features, gorgeous slightly curly hair and wide-open blue eyes. Her height was about 180 centimeters. She was dressed in a light translucent dress with the finest floral pattern. The woman looked as if she were alive. At her headboard lay a small object of unknown purpose.

The sarcophagus stood open for public viewing for about 5 hours. Almost all the residents of Rzhavchik came to see the “sleeping beauty”. And since the discovery was immediately reported to both the district center and the region, the village was soon visited by the authorities, firefighters, military and police.

A little later, a brick-colored helicopter arrived, and at least a dozen KGB officers in civilian clothes boarded it. They immediately announced that “the place was contagious” and ordered those present to move away from the coffin. Then they wrote down the data of everyone who touched the sarcophagus and even those who simply stood near it. This was supposedly necessary in order to conduct a medical examination.

Then they tried to carry the sarcophagus with the body to the helicopter. However, the burden proved too heavy, and it was decided to cast some liquid. When the woman's skin came into contact with the air, it began to darken instantly. When the liquid was poured back in, the blackness began to fade quickly, and the deceased's entire body took on its former appearance. As a result, having loaded the sarcophagus with all its contents into the helicopter, people in civilian clothes flew towards Novosibirsk. No one saw the mysterious woman, whom the villagers dubbed the Tisul Princess, again.

Some time later, a certain “elderly professor” came to Rzhavchik from Novosibirsk and gave a lecture in the local club about the first results of the Tisulsky find.

He enthusiastically announced that Novosibirsk scientists have established the age of the “deceased” - 800 million years. (By the way, according to our ideas about the universe, at that time there were not even dinosaurs on Earth, and the world, as it is still believed, ruled by plants). Also, the visiting scientist suggested that most likely, once a marble coffin with the body of a woman stood in a wooden crypt in the middle of a deep forest thicket. Over time, the crypt has completely grown into the ground, collapsed, and without access to oxygen for hundreds of millions of years turned into a monolithic layer of coal, inside of which was the sarcophagus.

And most importantly, according to the professor, Novosibirsk scientists conducted a genetic analysis of the body of the “sleeping beauty”, which showed its 100 percent sameness with modern humans. (At the same time, the find was attributed to a much more advanced civilization than ours). He also said that the best scientists are working on the composition of the amazing liquid, but so far its composition has not been identified and added that if the authenticity of this discovery is confirmed, it will disprove Darwin's theory of evolution.

At the end of the lecture, the professor solemnly promised that the villagers would be the first to learn about the new results of the examination. And after the lecturer left, the district newspaper published a short article about an archaeological find in the village of Rzhavchik, which is a valuable historical artifact.

But no sooner had the population enjoyed the glory than the military suddenly arrived and cordoned off the entire mining complex and surrounding areas. And police representatives went through the yards and confiscated all the newspapers with the sensational story. The place where the sarcophagus was found was immediately covered with earth, and all research was classified. The eyewitnesses were forbidden even to remember, let alone talk about what they had seen.

However, among the residents of Rzhavchik there were also fighters for the truth, one of whom went to all the authorities, even wrote a letter to the Central Committee of the CPSU. However, his fate turned out to be sad - he soon died of heart failure. And after within a year, one after another, under different circumstances, six more “discoverers” of the coffin died, the surviving witnesses were silenced forever. And those few, whom the reporters persistently tried to talk to, claimed that they did not remember any findings. In those years, rumors persistently spread through the village that the Tisul princess began to “kill” anyone who disturbed her peace, and people seriously feared for their lives.

However, the story the retired journalist told the journalist did not end there. In 1973, when supposedly “everything had calmed down,” large-scale excavations began six kilometers from the site of the sarcophagus discovery, conducted in the strictest secrecy. The excavation site was cordoned off by the military and police.

But, as they say, “you can't hide a piece in a bag”, and rumors began to reach the residents of Rzhavchik that outside the perimeter of the cordon an ancient cemetery from the Stone Age was excavated, where several more sarcophagi 200 million years old were found. And these rumors were believed, as the population saw a brick-colored helicopter flying to the site of secret excavations and taking something away. In addition, after the completion of the secret work locals found in the vicinity of the many graves covered with earth ...

As the years passed, this story was gradually forgotten. It came to light again only in 2002 after the publication of an article by Oleg Kulishkin, who, by the way, was hit by a car the day after it was published. Fortunately, the journalist was not badly hurt. Who knows, maybe this is how the curse of the Tisulsky find worked.

This mysterious story has divided those devoted to it into two camps: some believe in it, and some are skeptical. But both of them had and still have many questions about the Tisulsky find, to which no answers have been found.