around the legendary pskov kremlin, here it is customary to call it thunder. the fenced space mean from the ancient russian secluded place, that is, in fact, the words have the same root, before getting into the heart of this fortress, we name a dozen foundations of ancient buildings of the so-called davmont settlement; they appeared here after olga , the kremlin itself is actually quite small, only three hectares, but they are the focus of all pskov history. already in the time of princess olga, we can say that there is a developed settlement with posad with handicraft settlements on both sides of the pskovye velika river because this is a very busy road, the river velikaya was the main road. here are antiquities. getting into the pskov chudskaya reservoir. it gives access to the baltic through narva. that is, it is a trade route. this is really a trade route, so people here trade get richer and need protection. and when pskov becomes a border city in the north-west of the russian state, then its importance, as a fortress , increases even more because the loc