the germans capture both izborsk and pskov. enemy left these cities only after the victory of alexander nevsky on lake peipus. 1323. the germans go to pskov, and here i want to believe, the very name of this the place of izbors says that this land is chosen, and so many artists worked here, and very different in style, this is the epic roerich, a very chamber artist, who lived here almost all his life, pavlech melnikov, or, for example, the harshly contrasting pyotr pavelich asovsky, or evgeny evgenievich klimov. who lived the last decades of his life abroad in canada, and when he painted canadian landscapes, you can unmistakably guess izborsk in them, it is so attractive and powerful from the point of view of artistic attraction, the land. anyone who came here was enchanted by this place. valentin sidov, after he excavated the ancient city, could organize. he could have dug the surroundings there something else, but he said, you know, to me, he said, i would like to find the same monument, so that there would be such a beautif