beginning of the 14th century, the fortress was moved from truverov, a hillfort to a new place, zhiravyeat is, a crane mountain. the new fortress copied ancient, resembling a triangle in plan. until the 15th century, it withstood eight sieges. it is best to tell about the glorious pages of izborsk history from the top of the lukovka tower, from where a view of the izborsk-molskaya valley, the walls and the inner territory of the fortress opens up. 1233. the germans capture izborsk, but the poskovichi recapture it. 1240. the germans capture both izborsk and pskov. the 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