this quote from the radzevilov chronicle is carved on the prince’s thirty-ton stone. rurik settlement on the site where the first capital of russia was founded. at the turn of the 19th century, a huge settlement was formed here. but since this land was on all sides surrounded by water, the volkov river, flowing meadows in the spring, the houses were forced to be moved to the place where the kremlin now stands, they called it new city, novgorod. by the way, this year in the flood the water was waist-deep, the peninsula again turned into an island, and from mid-may it began to recede. from the former residence of the prince, only one mature monument remained, the church of the annunciation. century. in the 14th century it collapsed, the building was replaced with the current one, but more than half of it was swept away by fascist artillery fire. now the church is preserved antique masonry, glass roofing, infrared heating. so this antiquity has every chance of being a clear witness to distant history. not a single ship that went to the greeks could avoid this. the territ