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Polchaninov Rostislav Vladimirovich (b. 1919, Novocherkassk). Emigrant since 1920. Studied at the Faculty of Law of Belgrade University. Member of the National Organization of Russian Scouts (NORS), the Russian Falcon Society, the New Generation National Labor Union. During the years of the Great Patriotic War- an employee of the Orthodox mission in occupied Pskov, one of the main leaders of the underground work of NORS in Europe. Since 1951 lives in the USA. Teacher of Russian parochial schools. Author of a number of textbooks on the history and geography of Russia, the history of Russian America and Russian art. Head of the Historical Commission of the Organization of Russian Young Intelligence Officers (ORYUR). In 1967-1983 - an employee of Radio Liberty. Publisher of the bulletins "Pages of History", "To Help the Leader", the journal "Ways of Russian Falconry". Collector, bibliophile. In 2005, US citizen R.V. Polchaninov donated to the Pskov Regional Universal scientific library more than a hundred copies of rare local history literature, handwritten materials of the 18th-19th centuries, as well as his own letters - memories of the work of the Pskov Orthodox mission in occupied Pskov. Subsequently, several dozen more documents were transferred to the library. To date, in regional center for working with rare valuable documents"Library of Rostislav Vladimirovich Polchaninov" is 220 units of storage.

Before the trip, I experienced some fear. I doubted myself and Pskov. Pskov somehow always was in the shadow of Novgorod, so I twitched a little and thought that after Novgorod in the summer and Kyiv in spring bloom, winter Pskov would not cope with my sorrows. In addition, additional obstacles arose: so that not only I in our family excelled in the Aesculapian fields in 2005, my nephew swept down the hill, received a concussion and went to New Year and holidays in the hospital to observe bed rest. And since I was about to leave without asking permission from my doctors, the idea of ​​canceling the event loomed obviously. As a result, three out of five tickets were returned, we had to rebook the hotel, but we went, that is, me and my husband Grigory. Lena, Olechka and Misha will visit Olgin City next time. After all, there is the Olginsky embankment, the Olginsky bridge, the Olginsky chapel.

In the meantime, the first test has already lurked for me in the branded Pskov train. I don't usually write about fellow travelers. This one is memorable. colorful. Life has never confronted me with a real ensign before. An overweight and thick-cheeked rural guy, whose problems with arithmetic peacefully coexisted with ease in communication, first of all told us about the complete lawlessness in terms of constant written complaints from the soldiers to the authorities, to which each time a reaction follows. "Don't say a word to the private!" (Not to mention other methods of influence). God forbid that all ensigns have the same problems. Our hero was driving from Perm to Pechory. Accordingly, I asked how the day went in Moscow between trains. Imagine a grasshopper sitting in the grass, i.e. - at the station, due to poor orientation in the area. When asked how he likes Pskov, he concentrated and issued: "Pskov - Small town. Less Perm". I wonder if you can immediately not remember Mr. Skalozub with his distance and its size? However, there is nothing to be smart about, my defeat was ahead. Three snoring men in one compartment make the trip really unforgettable. This little orchestra did not leave me no hope.” In the middle of the night, I turned on the light and began to read.

In the best hotel in the city "Rizhskoy" the booked room was not waiting for us. A rather indifferent and unfriendly aunt, no, I’ll put it another way, an elderly blonde administrator who had never heard in her life that a client sometimes needs to smile, at least not from the bottom of her heart, insisted that they have a checkout time at 12, not everyone left. Wait. Someone will leave soon. After a stormy night, as well as a hard and prolonged illness, as a result of which I did not die, I had no strength to wait. The case ended with the fact that we moved into a single room until the evening. Some savings, because the reservation was also now not paid, played the role of a light sedative. Another small-depressing circumstance of our trip was the local tap water. Her hair went out of control and started a rebellion. That was the end of the trouble. We rested and with new independent hairstyles began to implement a huge amount of plans. Perhaps a couple more household details. We had breakfast and dinner at our place. Next to "Rizhskaya" there is a large Orbita store, where everything was bought at once. We ate at three different cafes. Slightly better fed in the "Mustang". A significant inconvenience in the local "amenities" turned out to be cold water and dog cold. A purely Pskovian harmless feature that united the three food outlets was the unpredictability of the order of ordered dishes. They tried to offer the second before the first, and so on. In all three. Honestly. In "Irina" it was warmer and cheaper, but the music was very annoying, sorry for the expression.

And about the main thing. I must say, today I would have planned the route differently. Winter days are short. It was better to start with the monasteries, because. The paintings need lighting. But the word Kremlin is so obliging, and I already had a preliminary agreement with Lidia Vladimirovna Vorontsova about the excursion. Therefore, the road led us to Krom. In Pskov, this is a very elongated fortress on a cape, between two rivers. First, the territory of the Dovmont city will unfold before you, where the number of temples built on one patch is simply beyond comprehension. Then you find yourself in a zahab - a narrow corridor with walls up to the second gate, designed for the successful destruction of an unreasonably broken enemy in this trap. main temple, Trinity Cathedral, does not impress with architectural delights, but is grandiose and majestically dominates the low-rise city center. Inside there is a high seven-row iconostasis with a carved gilded frame and numerous wall and pillar icons in rich vestments. It remains only to be surprised at human shortsightedness. Recently installed modern heating, as we were told, ruins the interior of the cathedral, because. the temperature and humidity conditions are seriously disturbed. The icons are literally in danger of shedding and cracking. Maybe that's why the unpleasant restrictive ropes did not let us into the cathedral.

Lydia Vladimirovna promised, even when I called from home, to help us with a trip to the Snetogorsk Monastery. Organizing time was very important, since the monastery cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin is closed for restoration, and we really wanted to see the ancient Pskov painting. We went there with a museum employee, Tatiana Nikolaevna, in a minibus. The monastery was founded in the 13th century. not far from Pskov on Mount Snetnaya. The mountain was nicknamed after the small fish, which once upon a time could be scooped up during spawning in the river with a sieve. In the XVI century. a bell tower was erected in the monastery, not inferior in height to the bell tower of Ivan the Great in Moscow. IN famous times it was destroyed by barges pulling it with ropes from the river. In the center of the monastery you can see what is left of it.
The Snetogorsk Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin is made of local limestone slab material and is famous for frescoes dating back to 1313. As I cautiously moved through the scaffolding of the cathedral, I thought that no matter how the trip turned out, I would never regret it. No matter how you prepare for what is to be seen, you will never be prepared for this. The temple in the woods does not seem uninhabited. He is vaguely ill. Like me. From this feeling, his and mine, are exacerbated. And so, the frescoes looked at me with Pskovian piercing eyes. The spiritual strength and emotionality of the faces attracted. I departed and returned, as if tied, to take another look and prolong the communication. Alas, about the degree of preservation public property you can only lament. I would like to bow to the people struggling to restore the recoverable. I especially remember the faces of the saints in the altar part on the second tier of scaffolding and the figures of the saints on the eastern wall of the northern arm of the cross below. Here I had to pull up a ladder to take a closer look. In the altar part, as I already determined at home, they were Saints Blaise and Spiridonius. According to legend, the second of them was from the shepherds. Already a bishop, he continued to walk with a shepherd's staff and wear a hat woven from wicker. In such a hat, he is depicted. The word "spiridon" itself means in Greek a round wicker basket.
Our guide, talking about the life of the Pskov monasteries in the XIV-XV centuries, said that the monastery was distinguished by many freedoms. Wealthy monks-owners did not live according to the charter, ate well, and ate and drank separately, each in his own cell, often getting drunk. There was no abstinence in clothes: they wore fur coats with fluff. They behaved independently, absented themselves from the monastery without permission and did not obey the abbot. As owners, the monks were engaged in trade and money transactions. They not only owned their property, but the withdrawal of deposits by relatives of the deceased was allowed. Initially monastery, in our time has become feminine.

Now, in a hurry to capture a favorable light period, chronologically in reverse order, we headed to the Mirozhsky Monastery, which received its name from the local river. Here, in the Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Savior, the world-famous ensemble of fresco paintings of the 12th century is preserved. This cathedral, unlike the previous one, is made of plinths, flat baked bricks used in construction in Byzantium and ancient Russian architecture. It is generally accepted that Greek masters painted it. First strong impression- the richest coloring of colors. The degree of preservation, if you still know that the cathedral was regularly flooded during spills, is fantastic. Frescoes were discovered, as usual, under a layer of plaster in the 19th century. The concept of restoration was far from contemporary ideas. The restoration carried out by the icon painter Safonov essentially closed ancient painting renewal record. The artists of the Safonov Artel worked in the same way in the Annunciation Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin. Today, the main thing is the restoration of the original layer, and not preening it in your own way. Tatyana Nikolaevna drew our attention to the best-preserved part of the murals of the northern direction, where the scene of the Lamentation of Christ stands out above. Grisha noticed that an association with Giotto immediately arises, but here it is much more early painting. In the dome there is a completely unusual Ascension, where 8 angels either soar or dance. I regretted not having binoculars. A doomsday not on the west wall. The time is not right. Much more important was the preaching of Christianity than something frightening.

We went to Pechery on our own. The bus schedule posted on the monastery website has been fully confirmed. If you first visit Pechory, then you need to go through Stary Izborsk only on the way back. On the recommendation of Lidia Vladimirovna, we found a guide, Alla, who plunged us into the history of the region with great enthusiasm. The pre-revolutionary name changed for the first time, when Pechery became part of Estonia before the war and began to be written in the Estonian way through e with dots - Pechery. At the end of this stage of territorial affiliation, obviously, in order to dissociate itself from it, the name was transformed into Pechory. The monastery was founded in the 15th century, and caves of natural origin have been known here since the end of the 14th century. Main Feature monastery is its location at the bottom of a ravine. Despite this, he withstood about 80 sieges, among them many weeks and even many months with the use of artillery. It is also famous for the fact that it never closed.
Alla immediately warned us that we would not get into either the Assumption or Mikhailovsky Cathedrals. We will not get into the cave necropolis either, where visits are organized in advance on weekdays, but now the caves are closed on holidays. First we walked around the walls of the monastery. By our arrival, the sun came out, and already at the Mikhailovsky Cathedral there was an additional joy from good lighting. The largest temple of the monastery, traditional-classical of the 19th century, has an exit beyond the fortress wall, which is used only on especially solemn occasions.
We had a lot of fun taking pictures of the monastery from two different sides of the curvilinear fortress wall. On the territory near the entrance, the construction of a snowy den-cave for Christmas was already being completed. Through a squat arch under the St. Nicholas Church we get into the sub-church, where the icons of the Theotokos are installed around the perimeter, starting with the icon Mother of God"Help of sinners". They were written with the participation and under the guidance of Archimandrite Alipiy, whom Alla will mention many more times, as an unusually versatile person, endowed with many talents and doing so much for the monastery.
The road leading inside the bowl of the monastery was called the "bloody path". According to legend, here Ivan the Terrible dealt with the abbot of the monastery Cornelius, who met him with all the monastic brethren, by chopping off his head with his own hand for treachery with Prince Kurbsky. Then the king instantly repented and allegedly carried the headless body of Cornelius into the cave.
On the right, Anna Ioannovna's carriage, proudly exhibited as a museum piece in a separate display case, will not be left without attention. In winter, it looks cool, and somehow cutely domesticates the territory. Like, in our living room there are objects for small talk.
Closely spaced buildings, deceiving the visitor by the number of storeys, elegant and colorful, are designed to create a feeling of a heavenly city, that is, heaven on earth. The main temple of the monastery, the Assumption, is decorated with baroque tiered domes, modeled on the domes of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. The domes are elongated in a line, which is rare, so the cathedral with exterior painting and painting on the drums of the domes evokes a direct association with the iconostasis of the temple under open sky. Above the entrance - the icon of the Mother of God with the forthcoming Anthony and Theodosius of the Kiev Caves, to the right - the Assumption of the Mother of God. To the left above the entrance to the caves is the Resurrection of Christ (Descent into Hell). On the hill behind the temple is a garden with fruit trees. The domes of the cathedral in this garden of paradise located just at ground level.
A golden-winged angel on the belfry, pointing at the clock with one hand, holds a scroll with a quote from the Christian commandments in the other. For exact reproduction I do not undertake, but the main idea: "Love one another, for our age is short!" On this, Alla ended the tour, and by some providence we were counted among the pilgrims and ended up in the caves with a monk guide.
As in the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery, the caves are a monastery tomb, a closed necropolis, which consists of two rooms at the entrance and six long underground galleries. Near the entrance, the walls are lined with bricks. Our guide talks about a certain builder who refused to go any further because there were no bearings in the galleries. The caves are located in layers of dense continental sand. They have beautiful arches, and if you put your hand to the wall, pure velvet sand remains on it. Underfoot - also sand, soft as a carpet. Throughout the year, the caves maintain a constant temperature of +5°C in winter and +7°C in summer. The climatic conditions of the caves are unique. They do not show any signs of smoldering, and even fresh flowers last an unusually long time. "You won't get lost here," the monk reassured us. - "If you hold on to the wall with one hand, you will bypass everything and get out." Unlike the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, there are no sarcophagi on the sides of the gallery, only plates with inscriptions - ceramides, stone and ceramic. They close the burial chambers, i.e. burials are made perpendicular to the course. Both abbots and monks, elders, laity and military people, the defenders of the monastery, are buried in the caves. At the end of one of the streets, an eve has been set up, panikhidas are performed there. I completely agree with the rules that restrict access to the caves for everyone who came to the monastery, because. in Kyiv, I was most struck by the vanity of the presence there of literally crowds of people.

Izborsk was listed rather low in my plans, they say, rather, Misha's nephew would like it, but he stayed at home. Well, a monument of Russian defense architecture, well, a wall with towers, partly of the 20th century. In winter, even the lake is not visible under the snow. Again, I was afraid for nothing. The only thing I didn't like was the wooden house sticking out like an impudent landmark in the middle of the fortress, shamelessly brightly painted and looking like an intruder. Of course, they paint with us, as they say, what it was. A sort of pseudo-luxury level of a small owner. The yellow house looks bad. I want to take it to the wall. Offer to get out.
After the fortress, located in the pit, Izborskaya is a sample of a fortification. Although we have already seen the Pokrovskaya Tower in Pskov, here the vertical multi-row loopholes are really closer. You can enter the Talav tower and take aim at the people in the zahaba. Climbing the Lukovka tower, evaluate the possibility of pouring hot resin on the enemy, or simply beating him with stones. On the top platform of the tower, even in winter, you get a lot of pleasure from the views of the surroundings. No one can deny themselves a photo for memory. Grisha especially liked one, in his performance, of course. "Oh," he said at home. - "I realized why I like her so much. It's called Gioconda. You smile a little, you folded your hands correctly, yourself - in the right angle, and an endless davince landscape with Italian "sfumato" goes into the distance. The next photo taken by me, as You understand, we can safely call Gioconda.Being already under the tower, outside the fortress, with our heads up to the screaming and affably waving from above, we again remembered the attackers and the defenders.The attackers had no prospects.
It was impossible not to go to the Slavic springs, which give a lot of things to those who drank some water from them. We drank with enthusiasm, like all those present, experiencing this inexplicable satisfaction. On the way back, I bought a dog hair belt for my dad, which he is very pleased with.

Of course, we wandered around the city a lot, enjoying its tranquility. It is worth moving half a step away from the main street, as all cars and pedestrians disappear, around - only houses of 2-3 floors and churches-temples. True, in winter it seems that there are problems with landscaping in the city, and trees are not visible at all in new areas. But there are many monuments, moreover, in a universal assortment: Lenin, Kirov, two Olgas, Alexander Sergeevich with a nanny, without a mug.
I advise you to definitely look into the Church of Nicholas from Usokhi. From the street it is quite difficult to imagine how the temple looks from the inside. The cultural layer has sunk it so much that the outer volumes do not correspond to the inner ones. In addition, this is a typical example of Pskov architecture and architectural features temple arrangements inside. Many golosniks create a sample of temple acoustics.
May the rest of the churches forgive me, the Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist won my heart. If you think about it, there are very few churches of the 12th century that have survived. In Pskov, we were told several times about the rector of this church, Father Andrei, and his icon-painting activities. Alas, we came to her last and late. Gorky Street turned out to be almost Tverskaya in length, but just as deserted as many others. On it, local extreme sportsmen drove on sleds attached to a car on a cable. I remembered Misha in the traumatology ward. The husband, as he asks to insert, was already quite exhausted and barely alive from a quick walk after a hearty lunch and dinner. He resisted as best he could and persuaded me to calm down and stop, but the evening was so good, the snow was falling, and we did not go in vain. The church seemed to me monumental and touchingly beautiful at the same time. Soulful. See: Byzantine helmet-shaped domes, roof-covering, plus the Pskov two-bay belfry. There is open space around the temple. This also works on his perception. On the southern façade, a pacifying light burns in the window above the door. A meek feeling of joy that I nevertheless made it to him does not leave me even now.

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