Onfim's Early Self-Portrait
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Onfim's doodle: A 13th-century kid's self-portrait on horseback, slaying an enemy
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A 7-year-old boy named Onfim drew a self-portrait on a piece of birch bark in the mid-13th century .
He is the most famous person in the Novgorod birch-bark texts.
His artistic talent was preserved for centuries by the wet, low-oxygen soil of his native city.
There is no historical evidence to reveal what happened to him as he grew up.
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