History

The magical properties of schungite were well known in Russia already long ago, only this was not called schungite, but shale. The Boyar Ksenia ivanova Romanova was sent to Zaonezhski by Boriss Godunov where she had to die, but upon the recommendation of the local peasants she started to drink from the magical spring and bathe therein, after which she not only healed, but gave birth to the future tsar in 1596 – Mihhail Feodorovitsh, the founder of Romanov dynasty.

Peter the First who suffered from kidney stone disease and dyspepsia, tested the major power of shale on himself and gave an order to give a stone to every soldier. The battle of Poltava was won by the Russian army partly thanks to this stone. The summer of 1709 was droughty, water bodies dried out. The Swedish army, including the King Karl XII, suffered from enterocolitis and lost fast its combat shape. The Russian soldiers drank only the water having stood on shale upon the order of the tsar. Having survived, the Russian army defeated the Swedish.