@wikipedia: Who hasn't sketched a daydream on the margins of their notes? Except this boy lived in medieval Novgorod in the 13th century. Onfim was likely six or seven years old when he scratched these drawings into birch bark alongside notes and homework exercises. They survived in the soil for over 750 years. In one drawing, he depicts himself as a warrior on horseback. In others, he experiments, doodles, and fills space the way children still do. His drawings and notes are among one thousand birch bark manuscripts found in archaeological excavations of Novgorod, which was an independent city state republic during the time Onfim lived. You can learn what historians know about his life at our link in bio.

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