This place in a zone of natural reserve of Khentii province is 120km east
from Ulaanbaatar and could be reached passing Gorkhi Terelj national park,
moving northeast after crossing Terelj River. While going upwards along swampy
road east of the Baruunbayan concentrated rocks known as “Khuh Chuluu” appears.
After passing these rocks, there is a densely forested area. This area
surrounded by pine tree forest is a naturally beautiful.In 1699 Manchu princess came to Mongolia becoming a queen of
Mongolian noble, Dondovdorj. She left her will before she passed away in 1740.
In the will, it was written “I got married with a Mongol man and lived throughout
my life with him, so I became a Mongolian. Therefore, please let me lay to rest
in a Mongolian territory”. Princess’s servants from Sunchin tribe have been
protecting the area around her grave since that time.
Until 1930 her sacred burial hadn’t been destroyed. But, when
excavation began in 1948, it had already been affected by the robberies. Grave
remains consist of 6 main parts including a stone monument, an establishment
protecting the grave, Bogd gate, a fortress, a sacred burial and a grave. Princess
tomb is in the sacred burial. The establishment protecting the grave has its
own fortress inside the bigger fortress. Height of the fortress is 2,5m, width
is 70m same as its length and covering area is 4900 square meter. The thickness
of the wall equals 4 bricks placed side by side. In front of the section inside
the fortress, there is 10m-high, 6m-wide Bogd gate which consists of several
columns. The sacred burial was placed near this gate. This square burial has a
road which allows entering north and coming out through south. A princess grave
is behind the sacred burial. As a result of the research it became clear that
there was a marble establishment under the grave. In the establishment, there
is a stone floor and a bow-shaped wall built by 8 bricks placed one after
another. A coffin made by sandalwood was found inside the
establishment at 3-4m below the earth surface. When the coffin wrapped in 9
layers of silk and painted with a conifer resin was opened, there was no mark
or traces of princess’s corpse. Even until now what happened to the corpse is
unknown. According to the local elders talk, the sandalwood coffin was covered with gold and was filled with golden or silver objects shaped in human figure, 5
main snouts and various kind of engraved gemstones. Interestingly, on west side
of the coffin another grave of a cross-legged fat man was
found. Since the corpse had been kept frozen, it looked as if he had
recently died. The coffin was wrapped in 7 layers of silk and there were toy
tools such as an axe, a saw, a hammer and a chisel etc. The corpse left
untouched, but whose corpse it was is still unknown today. Another remain of
the sacred burial is a stone turtle facing east. Flagstone with inscription was
lying flat upon this 1,95m long granite turtle. Two dragons were depicted above
the inscription. An inscription is Manchu script and characters on the central
part said that “Qin Dynasty officially established this stone monument
celebrating festival.
Many accounts about this princess of Qin Dynasty remained until
today. These accounts of the scholars and researchers said that “she always
stayed up late night and got up early morning, went on diet, and as a queen of
the Qin Dynasty she followed the instructions and rules accordingly”. His
husband Dondovdorj was a direct descendent of Abtai Sain khan and he was a
good-looking man who had perfectly qualified in learning, and had a deep
interest in poems. They had 7 sons named as Khajivdorj, Rinchindorj and
Gejaidorj and had only one daughter who gave birth a second Bogd after becoming
queen of duke Bayart of Khotgoid. This princess of Qin Dynasty managed to leave
her name forever in history because she devoted herself to her husband and to
Mongolia although she experienced somehow harsh life in a foreign country.